Galactic Research: Articles & Insights
Threat Thursday: September 24th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic's weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what …
AI Security
Four Controls for AI Tools That Can't Defend Themselves
A weather plugin, a stolen conversation, and the case for enforcing security outside the model I recently spent an afternoon on a public challenge range, one of those practice environments security researchers use to test …
Part 2: The Security Controls Behind a Safe AI Deployment
From the Map to the Hike: The Four Controls and the Client Conversations Behind Them This is Part 2 in a series that covers your AI enablement plan. Part 1 is here if you want …
Ten of Eleven AI Coding Agents Failed a Decades-Old Attack
What GuardFall Tells Us About Where AI Security Controls Need to Live Picture a security guard stationed at the entrance of a building. Their job is to check IDs. They're good at it, fast and …
Threat Intelligence
Threat Thursday: September 24th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic's weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what …
Threat Thursday: September 17th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic's weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what …
Threat Thursday: September 10th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic's weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what …
Security Education
How Cl0p Breached Shell, GE, and Philips Through One Flaw
A ransomware crew turned mass extortion into an assembly line. The victims found out months later. Ask anybody to picture a ransomware attack and you'll get roughly the same movie. Screens locking up across the …
The Browser Became the Endpoint. Your Security Stack Didn’t Notice.
An employee clicks a box that says “verify you’re human.” A prompt tells them to press a couple of keys, so they do. What they have actually done is paste and run a command that a script slipped onto …
Vulnerabilities Are Now the #1 Way In. The Window to Fix Them Is Closing.
Most of the time, I didn't break into a network so much as let myself in through something with a fix already out (just not installed yet): the VPN concentrator three versions behind, the firewall …
Strategy & Leadership
Why Cybersecurity Sales Pitches Get Lost in the First Two Minutes
Rapport, value, and trust, and what they look like in a room where someone is deciding whether to hire you People walk into a pitch prepared for a job interview, when the person across the …
OpenAI Warned About AI Cyberattacks. Now What?
What the letter says, what came after it, and how to talk about it without turning it into a sales pitch On August 27, OpenAI published an open letter on global cyber defense. More than …
An Open Letter From Your Cyber Risk Advisors
After the Water Attacks Last month, attackers reached into water treatment plants across a dozen states and started moving the controls. Some of them found out what happens when you do. I've been thinking about …
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Why Cybersecurity Sales Pitches Get Lost in the First Two Minutes
Rapport, value, and trust, and what they look like in a room where someone is deciding whether to hire you People walk into a pitch prepared for a job interview, when the person across the …
Threat Thursday: September 17th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic's weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what …
OpenAI Warned About AI Cyberattacks. Now What?
What the letter says, what came after it, and how to talk about it without turning it into a sales pitch On August 27, OpenAI published an open letter on global cyber defense. More than …
Threat Thursday: September 10th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic's weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what …
How Cl0p Breached Shell, GE, and Philips Through One Flaw
A ransomware crew turned mass extortion into an assembly line. The victims found out months later. Ask anybody to picture a ransomware attack and you'll get roughly the same movie. Screens locking up across the …
Threat Thursday: September 3rd, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic’s weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what …
Four Controls for AI Tools That Can't Defend Themselves
A weather plugin, a stolen conversation, and the case for enforcing security outside the model I recently spent an afternoon on a public challenge range, one of those practice environments security researchers use to test …
Threat Thursday: August 27th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic’s weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what …
The CMMC Suspension, Explained
Phase II is suspended, the rules still apply, and your compliance budget didn't get a refund http://youtu.be/nQuuxJQfgH4 Before you read on, watch this breakdown of what changed, what didn't, and what you should be doing …
Threat Thursday: August 20th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic’s weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what …
An Open Letter From Your Cyber Risk Advisors
After the Water Attacks Last month, attackers reached into water treatment plants across a dozen states and started moving the controls. Some of them found out what happens when you do. I've been thinking about …
Threat Thursday: August 13th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic’s weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what …
