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  "markdown": "Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Cisco.\n\nChuck Robbins is chair and chief executive of Cisco. He was named chief executive in July 2015 and elected chair of the board in December 2017. Outside Cisco he chairs the Business Roundtable and sits on the board of BlackRock.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuck-robbins\n- X: https://x.com/ChuckRobbins\n\n## What Chuck builds\n\n- [Cisco AI Defense Inspection API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cisco-ai-defense-inspection.md), graded C, 61.4/100, in Guardrails \u0026 safety filters. Hosted inspection API from Cisco that checks chat messages, HTTP requests and responses, and MCP messages for prompt injection, personal data, harmful content and policy violations, and returns an allow or block verdict for the calling application to enforce. Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Cisco, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Jeetu Patel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jeetu-patel/), President and Chief Product Officer, Cisco\n- [Leonard Bosack](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/leonard-bosack/), Co-founder, Cisco Systems\n- [Sandy Lerner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sandy-lerner/), Co-founder, Cisco Systems\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Chuck Robbins?\n\nChuck Robbins is chair and chief executive of Cisco. He was named chief executive in July 2015 and elected chair of the board in December 2017. Outside Cisco he chairs the Business Roundtable and sits on the board of BlackRock.\n\n### What does Cisco Systems, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Cisco AI Defense Inspection API from Cisco Systems, Inc.. Hosted inspection API from Cisco that checks chat messages, HTTP requests and responses, and MCP messages for prompt injection, personal data, harmful content and policy violations, and returns an allow or block verdict for the calling application to enforce.\n\n### How are Chuck's tools graded?\n\nCisco AI Defense Inspection API is graded C, 61.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisco-ai-defense/ai-defense-python-sdk/main/README.md\n- https://developer.cisco.com/docs/ai-defense-inspection/\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco\n- https://blogs.cisco.com/news/fortifying-the-future-of-security-for-ai-cisco-announces-intent-to-acquire-robust-intelligence\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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