Bruce Hembree
Field CTO
Palo Alto Networks
Bruce Hembree is the Palo Alto Networks Field CTO for the Americas. Prior to Palo Alto Networks Bruce served as Security Operations Manager at the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) and worked extensively with the Department of Defense. The DCU works with law enforcement agencies like the FBI, Scotland Yard, Interpol, and foreign and domestic government agencies doing offensive take-downs of global Internet threats, online organized crime, botnets such as Citadel, Conficker, Rustock among others, and disruption of child pornography distribution. Bruce is a veteran of the United States Air
Force and spent two years deployed to active conflict areas in support of global anti-terrorism efforts.