Recently, a good friend and I were reminiscing about our first meeting years ago and the events that have transpired since.

At the time I was working for a large international telecomm firm in the network security space and had been tasked with working with the local FBI office to help promote a collaborative effort between government and private industry called Infraguard as way to secure our nation's critical national technology infrastructure (hence "Infraguard").

I met "Al" at a local ISSA meeting and we immediately hit it off and became fast friends as we worked together on seminars to encourage those IT professionals who worked in key industries to come aboard this unique program.

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