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
Are Those Security Policies Useless?
Let me guess—you’ve got security policies. A whole binder full of them, right? Maybe even a fancy PDF with your logo on the cover. You wrote them. You reviewed them. You emailed them to your team. And then? Nothing. Nobody ...
The Criminal in the Mirror: Why Cyber Liability Isn’t Just for the Big Guys
You probably think cybersecurity lawsuits are something that only happens to the big dogs. You know, the MGMs of the world. The Targets. The Equifaxes. You see those names in the headlines, and you think: “Well, good thing I’m not ...
Small Business? Small Target? Think Again.
I was sipping my coffee this morning, watching steam curl out of the mug, when it hit me: lawsuits from cyber breaches are exploding. Like, actual explosion levels of growth. Yesterday, I told a CEO that breach-related litigation has doubled ...
You Trust Your Employees. That Might Be the Problem.
You built your business from the ground up. You poured your blood, sweat, and probably a few tears into finding the right people. You interviewed them. You trained them. You made sure they shared your values. Because that’s what good ...
When the Auditor Becomes the Architect—Run
Your business is hitting all the right numbers. Revenue is strong, operations hum along, and from your seat in the C-suite, things look bulletproof. Then—bam—a cyberattack hits. Systems go dark. Phones stop ringing. Orders grind to a halt. You reach ...
Think Your Email Is Safe? So Did They—Until the Lawsuits Hit
You think one compromised email account can’t cost millions? Time to wake up. It’s Monday morning. Coffee in hand. You walk into the office ready to take on the world—and ta-da. Your IT support team tells you one of your ...
Your Employee Clicked It—And Now You’re Holding the Bag
(Unless You’ve Got the Evidence to Prove You Tried to Stop Them) Let me set the scene. Your business is running smoothly. Sales are coming in. Operations are humming. Then your operations manager walks in, looking pale. “Hey… something weird ...
Your Employees Are Walking Around with the Whole Vault—Are You Okay with That?
When you think about security—real security—you picture layers. You picture barriers. You picture systems designed to keep the most valuable things locked down while still letting day-to-day business run smoothly. Think about the last time you went to a bank. ...
Hackers Are Cashing In—And You’re Their Next Jackpot
Cybercrime isn’t just a nuisance anymore. It’s an industry. And business is booming. Two of the largest ransomware payouts last year were over $70 million. Let that sink in. That’s not just hitting the jackpot—it’s bigger than winning the lottery. ...
Smishing: The Cyber Scam That’s Hitting Your Phone Right Now
My phone goes off. A text from a number I don’t recognize: “I’ll be late for lunch.” I pause. Do I respond? Who is this? Maybe it’s a coworker. A friend. A client. But here’s the truth: It’s not. It’s ...
Risk Is Unavoidable—Recklessness Is a Choice. Are You Gambling Your Future?
Have you ever jumped out of an airplane? For most people, the answer is hell no. But for the few who do, there’s one thing they always have to do first: Sign a waiver. That waiver says, Hey, you know ...
Is Your Business Lucky—Or Just One Disaster Away From Chaos?
It’s almost St. Patrick’s Day, which means it’s time to ask: What makes you lucky? Do you have a lucky charm? A rabbit’s foot? A four-leaf clover pressed in an old book? Maybe you cross your fingers and hope for ...
