Blog / Nuno Loureiro

Nuno Loureiro

Nuno is a Co-Founder and the CEO of Probely. He has over 20 years of professional experience in IT and throughout his career, he acquired vast knowledge in Information Security, Unix system administration, architecture and development of large-scale web applications, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills. 

In the past, he led SAPO Security Team and PT Pay (MEO Wallet) Security and Fraud teams, where he implemented a security governance model, provided security guidance during the development lifecycle of projects, implemented PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) within PT Pay, audited several projects and was responsible for the architecture and design of the Anti-Fraud solution for Meo Wallet. 

He holds an MSc in Information Technology - Information Security from Carnegie Mellon University and FCUL (dual degree program).

  • The status quo in the cyber-security industry is that most small businesses can’t afford a security solution, and any attempts to become more secure are either drowned in technical jargon or in distant price-ranges. In order to change the way businesses deal with security, this status quo has to be challenged.
  • There are several examples of companies that went bankrupt after a successful attack, and not too long ago, we witnessed one of the largest and most devastating breaches in history. But if you are reading this, you want to take a first step towards improving your security, which is good.
  • A single-page application (SPA) is a web application that mimics the behavior of a desktop application, i.e., instead of loading a new page every time the user interacts with the application, it retrieves all necessary code (HTML, JS, CSS) with a single page load and dynamically rewrites the current page using Javascript and AJAX requests (to an API) as the user interacts with it.
  • When it is time to release a new version of your online service (web application), you hopefully want to make sure your code is not vulnerable, so that you are not the next company in the headlines for a bad reason. There are several examples of companies that went bankrupt after a successful attack and a couple of weeks ago we witnessed one of the largest and most devastating breaches in history.