Welcome to InfraGard Minnesota Member Alliance
Upcoming Events
President's Message
Welcome to our NEW Website. We have quite a few exciting things going on in our chapter. We celebrated our Annual Meeting in person back in September of 2022 at Cargill with over 150 people in attendance. We have had steady attendance at each of our in-person meetings since.
The new Roundtable discussion format at last year's Annual Meeting was well received by members who shared a strong interest in OT/IoT Security and wanted more programming on this topic. We continue to have this be part of our regular chapter meetings.
Here are some new and exciting updates on what we have going on:
- With recertification underway, we now have over 830 members in that process! That’s awesome!
- Many of our previous 1700+ members had gone dormant during the pandemic and no longer received portal notifications or intelligence briefings. Once the portal is back open later this year, please log into the portal at www.InfraGard.org, and update your information and you will start receiving these notifications again.
- Creation of a New Sector Chief SME program. Check out the Sector Chiefs Program information on the directory to the left for more information.
- Chapter Annual tax-deductible Support of $25 per member will move to an annual calendar renewal each January.
- Chapter Sponsorship Program is now here! Click the link above this message for more details. We thank all of our new sponsors for your support of our Mission!
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Minnesota Patriot Circle is now live. See contribution levels below at the bottom of this page.
InfraGard is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and members of the private sector for the protection of U.S. Critical Infrastructure. Through seamless collaboration, InfraGard connects owners and operators within the critical infrastructure to the FBI to provide education, information sharing, networking, and workshops on emerging technologies and threats.
InfraGard’s vetted membership includes business executives, entrepreneurs, lawyers, security personnel, military, and government officials, IT professionals, academia, state and local law enforcement, and many others—all dedicated to contributing industry-specific insight and advancing national security. As members of InfraGard, we focus much of our attention on critical infrastructure national security and are supported by a complex framework of businesses and services. However, the central role of these critical infrastructures and key resources (CIKR) makes them especially vulnerable as targets for both physical and cyber-attacks.
With the majority of infrastructure in the U.S. owned and operated by the public-private sector, cultivating information-sharing partnerships that incorporate key industry stakeholders alongside law enforcement and government entities is crucial to protecting our most important public assets.
The FBI’s InfraGard program provides a vehicle for seamless public-private coordination with a government that expedites the timely exchange of information and promotes mutual learning opportunities relevant to CIKR defense.
If you are already a member, thank you for helping to build a safer and more secure country! If you are not a member and are interested in joining, apply for membership today.
Respectfully,
Tim Herman
