Jean Michel Kaoukabani
Head of Information SecurityByblos Bank

Jean Michel Kaoukabani is the Head of Information Security Department at Byblos Bank Group.

He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) from ISACA and a Lecturer at University Saint Joseph-ESIB and Ecole Nationale D' Administration (ENA) Lebanon.

Prior to his current position, Jean Michel was respectively the Head of IT audit and the Head of MIS at Byblos Bank.

He graduated from the French engineering school Ecole Nationale de La Statistique et de L'Analyse de L 'Information (ENSAI) and holds also a degree in Economics from Saint Joseph University-Lebanon.

Jean Michel has been an IS professional for more than 16 years including 14 years of Information Security and IT Audit in the financial industry. He delivered several MIS, Design, programming and Information Security courses in Universities across the country. He has a long experience with risk and Vulnerability assessment and is a QUALYS Certified Specialist.

His current focus, in addition to his responsibility at Byblos Bank is around Digital Forensics, malware analysis and incident response.