Galactic Research: Articles & Insights
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 it could mean for your ...
AI Security
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 the full map. The Little ...
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 consistent, and the building's occupants ...
Perfect AI Guardrails Are Impossible. That's Not an Excuse for Ignoring Them.
What a NIST Mathematician Proved, Why the Internet Got it Wrong, and What Your AI Security Program Should Look Like Years ago, running an MSSP, I had a vendor pitch us a next-gen firewall on a single promise: one hundred ...
Threat Intelligence
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 it could mean for your ...
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 it could mean for your ...
Threat Thursday: August 6th, 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 it could mean for your ...
Security Education
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 their clipboard the moment they ...
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 with a known vulnerability fixed ...
Your OSINT Reality Check: Here’s What an Attacker Is Finding in 30 Minutes or Less
Today’s connected, AI-driven digital ecosystem has made it easier than ever to build a professional brand, network with peers, and share ideas with a wider audience. It’s opened doors for businesses that simply didn't exist before: new customers, new partnerships, ...
Strategy & Leadership
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 what to say to the ...
Building Trust in Executive Relationships: Lessons from King Lear
A Framework for Establishing the Kind of Trust that Survives Budget Season Imagine the curtain going up and a group of players act out the opening scenes of Shakespeare's King Lear, just for you. An aging king sits in his ...
Your Jokes Were Funny. They Still Didn't Renew.
How MSPs Build the Kind of Client Rapport That Survives a Budget Review You walked out of the meeting feeling good. The handshake was firm, the small talk landed, and you even got a laugh with the printer joke. You ...
All Articles
How Will You Respond When the Letter Shows Up?
Let’s say a breach hits your company. The bad kind. Ransomware, data theft, media buzz—the full circus. Do you have a plan? I’m not talking about the “we have antivirus” plan. I mean playbooks. Protocols. A real, documented incident response ...
Even Cartier Can’t Keep the Hackers Out. What Chance Do You Think You Have?
Cartier just got hit. So did The North Face. Not exactly fly-by-night operations. These are brands with billion-dollar reputations—and hackers still got in. Customer data stolen. Systems compromised. Public announcements trying to minimize the damage. The usual script. And it’s ...
Microsoft Just Extorted You. Here’s What to Do About It.
You don’t have to upgrade to Windows 11. That’s the good news. The bad news? If you don’t, your business is about to enter a slow, painful spiral into cyber vulnerability and operational chaos. Right now, people are calling Microsoft’s ...
You Just Lost Your Phone. Now What?
Let’s be honest. You probably don’t lose things. You don’t misplace your keys. You don’t forget where you parked. And your phone? It’s probably surgically attached to your hand. But here’s the thing—phones get lost. Phones get stolen. And if ...
The Shocking Truth About Your Macs
Let me tell you a story we didn’t expect to write. We’ve been hammering away in our lab, diving deep into the Apple ecosystem—testing, poking, simulating real-world attacks. You know what we found? macOS is tight. The security architecture? Rock ...
The IRS Test: Why Your Cyber Program Needs More Than Just Good Intentions
Think about your cybersecurity the same way you’d think about your books. Everyone says they “take security seriously.” But when the auditors show up—or worse, the breach happens—intentions don’t matter. Proof does. Here’s how I break it down for MSPs ...
When the Fire Hits, You Better Have a Map
You lock your office. You set the alarm. Maybe you even have a camera watching the front door. You’re not careless—you take reasonable steps to protect your business. But here’s the part no one tells you: when the fire starts—when ...
Victoria’s Secret Just Pulled the Plug on Its Website. Here’s Why That Should Worry You.
Last week, Victoria’s Secret—the billion-dollar lingerie brand—shut down its U.S. website and paused some store services. They called it a “security incident.” No one knows yet what happened behind the scenes, but one thing is clear: it was serious enough ...
How a Waiver (Yes, Like Skydiving) Could Protect Your Business in Court
You wouldn’t go skydiving without signing a waiver. Why? Because when something goes wrong mid-air, you don’t want to debate liability on the way down. Here’s the problem: most businesses are making high-risk IT decisions without any form of documentation. ...
They Didn’t Break In. They Just Called.
She thought it was her bank. They were polite. Professional. Helpful. They said her account had been compromised. They just needed to “verify a few things.” They even helped her set up Zelle to “protect her funds.” Two weeks later, ...
The One Employee Who’s Never Taken Your Security Training (and Never Will)
Let me introduce you to the new team member quietly absorbing everything about your business. They don’t sleep. They don’t forget. They don’t ask questions. And they’ve never—not once—completed your security training. Meet: Your Employee’s AI Assistant. AI Doesn’t Just ...
Your Data Is Missing, Your Clients Are Calling, and You Have No Plan
You have data. Some of it keeps hackers up at night. The rest just keeps your business running. Either way, it all matters when the breach hits—and if you don’t know where it lives, how to prioritize it, or how ...
