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Overview of the Organization |
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InfraGard is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) program that began in the Cleveland Field Office in 1996. It was a local effort to gain support from the information technology industry and academia for the FBI’s investigative efforts in the cyber arena. The program expanded to other FBI Field Offices, and in 1998 the FBI assigned national program responsibility for InfraGard to the former National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) and to the Cyber Division in 2003. InfraGard and the FBI have developed a relationship of trust and credibility in the exchange of information concerning various terrorism, intelligence, criminal, and security matters. Today the InfraGard program spans all sectors of the nation infrastructure including Agriculture & Food, Banking & Finance, Chemical, Energy, Information Technology, Transportation, and Telecom. The organization has become a key source of subject matter expertise in each sector for the intelligence community as a whole. Membership is free and easy to do. We are looking for experts in all of the above areas of the country’s infrastructure.
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