Michael Babischkin is a 22 year veteran of the US Coast Guard. His diverse Coast Guard career has included assignments ranging from Search and Rescue boat crew member at Station Cape Cod Canal MA and radio communications operator onboard the US Coast Guard Cutter MIDGETT to IT Instructor. He’s also served as the Assistant Information Systems Security Officer for the Coast Guard Great Lakes region and later as an Assistant Branch Chief at the Coast Guard’s Telecommunications and Information Systems Command.  Michael retired from Active Duty as a Chief Warrant Officer in 2014.

Since retiring from the Coast Guard Michael has worked at two different Fortune 300 companies leading the comprehensive transformation of their global cybersecurity incident response programs, building a security monitoring and incident program with an international footprint from scratch at one company and completely revising the organization and maturing the program of the other.

Michael is currently the Deputy Director of Information Security at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago where he has been for the past four years.  He has led the Bank’s Vulnerability Management and Security Awareness programs, and now leads the Bank’s Threat and Incident Response and IAM Operations teams in addition to providing security expertise and leadership to the Bank’s strategic initiatives.