Founder of a listed tool
Leonard Bosack
Co-founder, Cisco Systems, named behind the Cisco AI Defense Inspection API listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Leonard builds
Cisco AI Defense Inspection API C · Guardrails & 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.
Co-founder, Cisco Systems, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Sandy Lerner Co-founder, Cisco Systems
Questions
Who is Leonard Bosack?
Leonard Bosack co-founded Cisco Systems in December 1984 after working on the router that linked the networks of Stanford's computer science department and its business school. He had been a hardware engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation, left Cisco in 1990 and later ran XKL, an optical networking company.
What does Cisco Systems, Inc. make?
Anchor 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.
How are Leonard's tools graded?
Cisco AI Defense Inspection API is graded C, 61.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (4)
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisco-ai-defense/ai-defense-python-sdk/main/README.md
- https://developer.cisco.com/docs/ai-defense-inspection/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco
- https://blogs.cisco.com/news/fortifying-the-future-of-security-for-ai-cisco-announces-intent-to-acquire-robust-intelligence
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