Leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee, including Sens. Mark Warner and Marco Rubio, and a group of bipartisan lawmakers have recently introduced legislation requiring federal contractors and critical infrastructure groups to report attempted cyber breaches. The legislation, known as the Cyber Incident Notification Act of 2021, comes in response to a number of high-profile cyber attacks on critical infrastructure and federal contractors. Chief among these are the attacks on SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline.

In December 2020, the IT management firm SolarWinds fell victim to a cyber attack, which resulted in the compromise of hundreds of federal agencies and private sector companies’ private information. Then, in May 2021, there was a ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, which halted pipeline operations temporarily and resulted in fuel shortages along the east coast. Florida has not been immune from such attacks. In early July, a ransomware breach of a Florida-based IT firm affected more than 200 businesses.

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