Jean-Phillippe Jouas

Jean-Philippe JOUAS dedicated a large part of his career to information technologies and to information security systems and risk management.

After he leaded the development of highly secure systems in the field of Defense and afterwards in railways transportation systems, he devoted himself to information security systems, starting from 1989.

Soon, he sensed the need for a risk management method and develops the model of risk that would give rise to Méhari.

In 1992, he published in Editions d’Organisation  the “information risk” ( Les Risques Informatiques) book with Albert Harari, in association with Jean-Marc Lamère, President of the Clusif and Jacques Tourly, co-author of Jean-Marc Lamère’s books on Marion.

The work carried out from 1992 on this basis, within the Clusif Methods Committee, will lead to the first version of Méhari in 1996 and then followed by new versions in 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2016 (Méhari 2017 )-;  not mentioning some  intermediate editions.

In terms of his personal career, Jean-Philippe Jouas was a manager of security for the  Groupe Bull from 1989 to 1994, before joining the consulting firm CSC (Computer Science Corporation), and founding his own company 2SI, Sécurité des Systèmes D’Information, a company specialized  in organizational consulting and security management (which is no longer operating).

He was President of CLUSIF from 1993 to 1999.