
DBIR Lead Author, Verizon
Alex Pinto
Alex Pinto is the senior manager of the Verizon DBIR team. His team is responsible not only for the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, but for security research and thought leadership for all the Verizon Business Security Products organization. He joined Verizon in 2018, after it acquired his machine learning-based network detection company, Niddel. Before that, Alex was a co-founder of Cipher Security, a worldwide security services provider originated in Brazil and since then acquired by Prosegur.