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Bruce Hembree
Field CTO
Palo Alto Networks + Cortex
Cortex Speaker
Cortex - Cortex CrescendoField CTO for Cortex - one of the three divisions of Palo Alto Networks and the division responsible for machine learning, automation, endpoint defense, and now incident response. Bruce bridges Cortex to the security community, defense, law enforcement, development, partner and customer executives worldwide. Bruce also leads internal research projects for compelling data points in the information security world and frequently finds himself presenting to the public on current critical security topics in simple terms that encourage even lay people to become security-conscious.