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John Kindervag

  • Chief Evangelist, Illumio
  • Contributor, Freelance
Dallas
As seen in: LinkedIn, Computer Weekly, Dark Reading, Infosecurity Magazine, Security Boulevard, SC Magazine UK, Security Magazine, TI Inside, Global Security Mag (France), Carahsoft and
Creator of Zero Trust. Chief Evangelist at Illumio. Former SVP at ON2IT. Former Field CTO at Palo Alto Networks. Former Forrester analyst.
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CW@60: What Doom taught me about networking, security and trust

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By John Kindervag
| Computer Weekly Verified
On 22 September 2026, Computer Weekly turns 60. To mark the milestone, we asked some of our friends - experts, parliamentarians, IT leaders and suppliers - for their perspectives on how tech has changed their lives over six decades. What's changed the most for you since then? In the early 1990s, I was working in computer animation, rendering graphics for film and video output. I convinced my boss we needed an Ethernet network to move files between machines faster.
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Quando o risco cibernético se torna um problema do CEO

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By John Kindervag
| TI Inside Verified
Em dezembro do ano passado, Park Dae-jun, CEO da operação sul-coreana da empresa de tecnologia Coupang, renunciou ao cargo. Uma violação de dados havia exposto as informações pessoais de quase 34 milhões de clientes, praticamente toda a base de usuários da empresa. Park afirmou que estava deixando o cargo para assumir a "grave responsabilidade" pela violação. Sua renúncia ocorreu após investigadores do governo sul-coreano concluírem que não se tratava de um ataque inédito e impossível de impedir.
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Fifteen Years Later, Zero Trust Is Still About One Thing: Good Policy

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By John Kindervag
| Cybersecurity Asia
When I first started talking about Zero Trust, people told me I was insane. Seriously. I was called a “nutter.” Told it would never work. That no one in their right mind would adopt a model that challenged the core assumption networks were built on: trust. But I couldn’t let the idea go. Not because I set out to start a movement—I didn’t. I just thought the existing firewall policies were dumb. Back then, I worked with firewalls that automatically assigned trust to interfaces.
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