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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Cisco Systems.\n\nSandy Lerner co-founded Cisco Systems in 1984 while director of computer facilities at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, adapting Stanford networking software that became the base of Cisco IOS. She left Cisco in 1990 and later co-founded the cosmetics company Urban Decay.\n\n## What Sandy 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- [Leonard Bosack](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/leonard-bosack/), Co-founder, Cisco Systems\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Sandy Lerner?\n\nSandy Lerner co-founded Cisco Systems in 1984 while director of computer facilities at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, adapting Stanford networking software that became the base of Cisco IOS. She left Cisco in 1990 and later co-founded the cosmetics company Urban Decay.\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 Sandy'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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