Imagine starting your workday to find all your company’s sensitive data has been leaked due to a nearly imperceptible hack embedded in an AI prompt. The culprit isn’t the AI model but rather a lack of protections surrounding it. When rapidly adopting AI at scale, many organizations unintentionally ignore a crucial element: security and governance. Often, companies will only add operational AI rules post-deployment. However, this approach creates hidden blind spots and slows security teams’ responses when threats inevitably appear. In this presentation, Mark Toler will reveal why AI...
Mark Toler
AI Security Product Marketing and Sentiment Research
F5
Mark Toler leads product marketing and sentiment research for AI security at F5 where he has spent the past year developing AI models for sentiment analysis of security practitioner concerns related to AI adoption. Mark's research focuses on separating signal from hype, tracking how concerns evolve with new innovations like agentic AI, and translating practitioner feedback into practical guidance for responsible AI deployments. With a career spanning higher education, technology, and entertainment, he brings a cross-disciplinary perspective to complex topics, helping technical and business audiences align on what matters most when securing AI systems at scale.