# InfraGard **Entity class:** FBI-private-sector partnership ## Definition **InfraGard** is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and private-sector critical-infrastructure owners, operators, professionals, academics, public-safety personnel, and other stakeholders. It provides education, networking, and two-way information sharing concerning threats and risk. As of 2026, the FBI reports more than 40,000 members in more than 70 local chapters. The FBI's membership materials state that successful risk assessment does not equal a security clearance; membership is not FBI employment. ## Relationships - **article-linked institution or supplier:** [[wiki/Federal Bureau of Investigation|Federal Bureau of Investigation]]. - **article-linked mechanism or framework:** [[wiki/Vetted Civilian Intelligence Network|Vetted Civilian Intelligence Network]]. - **collection route:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]]. - **counterterrorism architecture:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. - **source article:** [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. - **federal partner:** [[wiki/Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] and its Office of Private Sector. - **private-sector organization:** InfraGard National Members Alliance. - **domain:** critical-infrastructure protection, physical security, and cybersecurity. - **counting boundary:** membership is distinct from active source status and agency employment. ## Sources / Provenance - [FBI — Office of Private Sector, accessed September 23, 2026](https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/office-of-private-sector) - [FBI — InfraGard program portal, accessed September 23, 2026](https://infragard.fbi.gov/) - [FBI — InfraGard structure and membership](https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/infragard_factsheet-5-29-18.pdf) ## Civilian intelligence marketplace FBI partnership with private-sector and other critical-infrastructure participants for two-way threat-information sharing. Its vetted network connects professional local knowledge with cyber and physical-security awareness. Civilian reporting expands national awareness when observations enter a standard process of intake, review, sharing, and analysis. The same find, fuse, identify, correlate, geolocate, predict, and act-faster architecture appears under counterterrorism and broader homeland-security vocabulary. Professional training and reliable information handling make distributed participation useful. ### Marketplace sources - [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft#V. The Suspicious Activity Reporting Architecture: Civilianized Collection by Design|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft — V. The Suspicious Activity Reporting Architecture: Civilianized Collection by Design]] — October 2026 revision; immediate source for this entry’s place in the marketplace. - [KrebsOnSecurity, FBI's Vetted Info Sharing Network 'InfraGard' Hacked (December 2022).](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/12/fbis-vetted-info-sharing-network-infragard-hacked/) - [Lauren Armbruster, Catherine O'Saben, and Nicholas Tran, MITRE, Scaling the Use of Publicly Available Information Across the U.S. Government (April 2025).](https://www.mitre.org/sites/default/files/2025-04/PR-25-1065-Scaling-the-Use-of-Publicly-Available-Information-Across-the-US-Government.pdf) ## Connected marketplace roles The source article connects this entry with [[wiki/FBI Public-Private Infrastructure Intelligence|FBI Public-Private Infrastructure Intelligence]], [[wiki/Vetted Civilian Intelligence Network|Vetted Civilian Intelligence Network]], [[wiki/Secure Intelligence Portal|Secure Intelligence Portal]], [[wiki/Intelligence List Server|Intelligence List Server]], [[wiki/InfraGard Roster Compromise|InfraGard Roster Compromise]], [[wiki/Federal Bureau of Investigation|Federal Bureau of Investigation]]. These routes locate the associated people, implementations, methods, and operational contexts in [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. **Collections:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]].