John Kindervag, creator of the Zero Trust security model, joins Cerby as advisor

Cerby announced that John Kindervag, one of the world’s foremost cybersecurity experts, has joined its Advisory Board. Kindervag is the creator of the Zero Trust model that has revolutionized the cybersecurity industry.

In this role, Kindervag will help the company focus its efforts on some of the greatest dangers in the IT universe today — unmanageable applications. A $400B problem, these are applications that lack support for critical standards such as single sign-on, role based access control and security APIs, which are required for companies to implement Zero Trust principles.

“As the creator of Zero Trust, I’m always on the lookout for disruptive technologies that make it easier to architect Zero Trust environments,” Kindervag noted. “Step one in implementing Zero Trust is to define the Protect Surface, which contains a single data type, asset, or application. But as the landscape gets overrun with unmanageable applications, it becomes very difficult to manage and protect. Cerby brings these new application types into the Zero Trust world–this innovative technology makes the unmanageable easily manageable. I’m honored that they’ve asked me to join their team as an advisor.” 

Kindervag served for more than 8 years as vice presidnent and principal analyst on the security and risk team at Forrester Research, and earned industry-wide recognition for his development of the Zero Trust model.

His work has appeared in numerous research papers and been covered by outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Forbes, CNBC, and Fox News. He also served as field CTO at Palo Alto Networks, advising public and private sector organizations on ways to solve their toughest cybersecurity challenges. He currently serves as senior vice president of cybersecurity strategy at ON2IT and as Group Fellow of ON2IT Cybersecurity. Earlier, he served as a security consultant, penetration tester, and security architect.

Kindervag has headlined many security conferences and events, including the RSA Conference, SXSW, ToorCon, ShmoCon, InfoSec Europe, and InfoSec World.

“It’s an honor to have John on our advisory board and we appreciate his validation of our approach to the growing security issue of unmanageable applications,” said Cerby co-founder and CEO Belsasar Lepe. “His knowledge of the security environment and unique perspectives will be hugely valuable to our company and our customers as we move forward into new functions, new industries and new markets.” 

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