This dissertation presents a general method for the specification and quantitative evaluation of information systems security. This method allows to monitor the evolutions of an information system in operation, as well as to compare the impact on security of possible modifications of the functioning. It relies on a formal specification of the system security policy, augmented by a model of the vulnerabilities observed in the real system in operation. Then, a security measure represents the difficulty for an attacker to exploit the vulnerabilities and defeat the objectives defined in the security policy.Information systems security policy specification necessitates the definition of a rigorous and expressive framework. Furthermore, the langu...