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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Cisco Systems.\n\nLeonard 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.\n\n## What Leonard builds\n\n- [Cisco AI Defense Inspection API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cisco-ai-defense-inspection.md), graded C, 61.3/100, 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. Co-founder, Cisco Systems, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Sandy Lerner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sandy-lerner/), Co-founder, Cisco Systems\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Leonard Bosack?\n\nLeonard 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.\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 Leonard's tools graded?\n\nCisco 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.\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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