Companies have faced an onslaught of attempted cyberattacks since the start of the pandemic. To make it through the turbulence, companies are relying on security experts who were sometimes sidelined by management in the past, but are now rising in the executive ranks.

The European Union imposed sanctions for the first time in response to major cyberattacks, bringing the bloc more in line with the U.S. approach of publicly naming and seeking punishment for nation-state hackers.

Election Systems & Software, the top U.S. seller of voting-machine technology, is calling a truce in its feud with computer-security researchers over the ways they probe for vulnerabilities of the company’s systems.