The Zero Trust Origin Story with John Kindervag, Chief Evangelist at Illumio and Creator of Zero Trust

Welcome back to The Segment! In our Season 2 premiere, host Raghu Nandakumara sits down with John Kindervag, Chief Evangelist at Illumio and the “Godfather of Zero Trust”, to unpack John’s Zero Trust origin story, where folks go wrong on their Zero Trust journeys, federal Zero Trust momentum, and so much more.

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“I said all interfaces should have the same trust and it should be zero. And that's really where Zero Trust comes from, is just a pushback against how we were building firewalls which affected policy and there was no reason for it." - John Kindervag

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Time Stamps

(09:00) The foundation of “trust but verify”

(15:39) The motivation behind John’s seminal papers at Forrester

(24:16) The uptick of Zero Trust 

(31:41) Is Zero Trust difficult to adopt? 

(46:48) What does a culture of Zero Trust mean?

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Sponsor

Assume breach, minimize impact, increase resilience ROI, and save millions in downtime costs — with Illumio, the Zero Trust Segmentation company. 

Learn more at illumio.com.

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Links

Connect with John on LinkedIn

Read the NSTAC Report to the President on Zero Trust and Trusted Identity Management (February 2022)