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
Third-Party Integration for Google Code Assist Debuts
Your business may know that Google’s powerful AI-assisted coding platform, Google Code Assist, has a new update to make the tool even more useful and powerful. The update supports third-party integration for Google Code Assist tools, which supports faster, more ...
The Hardest Part of Incident Response? Knowing It Could Have Been Prevented
There’s nothing worse than standing in the middle of a disaster, knowing it didn’t have to happen. I remember spending days recovering a hospital from a ransomware attack, watching the chaos unfold in real-time. As I worked to bring systems ...
How to Break Free from Cybersecurity Chaos
Cybersecurity isn’t just complicated. It’s chaotic. With every new technology, application, and integration, your business is expanding its attack surface. On average, a computer has 14 vulnerabilities; that’s 14 potential entry points for an attacker. Imagine leaving 14 doors or ...
AI Creates Code, Developers Remain In Charge
“AI is going to take our jobs!” “Soon, everything will be done by robots.” Statements like these have become increasingly common. Now, with the explosion of generative AI tools, there’s a sense of impending doom in some industries, spurred on ...
Your IT Team Thinks They’re Doing Everything Right—But That Won’t Save You
Your IT team has the firewalls, the antivirus, the endpoint protection. They run updates, enforce strong passwords, and have a cybersecurity training program in place. But it’s not enough. Hackers are using AI, automation, and social engineering to bypass security ...
How YouTube’s Biggest Cyber Problem Could Become Yours: Protect Your Business Through Better Decision-Making
Imagine this: You’re scrolling through YouTube, looking for a tutorial or product review, and a link catches your attention. It looks legitimate, professional, helpful, and trustworthy. You click it, and just like that, malware has found its way onto your ...
Mastering Incident Response: Build a Winning Strategy
Has anything been more disruptive to business cybersecurity than AI’s entry into the mix? Its meteoric rise has meant that criminals possess increasingly powerful and effective tools with which to launch attacks—and businesses are prime targets. Mastering incident response is ...
Tax Season is Open Season for Identity Theft—Here’s How to Protect Yourself
It’s that time of year again. W-2s are flying out the door. 401(k) reviews are underway. And soon, millions of Americans will cut checks to the IRS. But for cybercriminals, this isn’t just tax season—it’s prime hunting season. Here’s why: ...
Old Digital Scams, New Tricks: Stay Informed to Stay Safe
Since the Internet became an integral part of daily lives, scammers have attempted to use all sorts of networks to steal from unsuspecting victims. There aren’t any members of Royal families in need of assistance or foreign lottery winnings waiting ...
Hackers Are Coming—Will You Be Ready?
You know hackers are looking for weaknesses. That’s no secret. But here’s what most business owners don’t realize: even if your IT team gets everything right, a hacker can still get in. And when that happens, your only real defense ...
Your Office May Be Full of Tracking Tech
Do you ever feel like someone is watching you? If you were an employee working in an office, you could trust your instincts. Many businesses are implementing tracking tech – employee tracking tools that monitor indicators like employee office use ...
Public Wi-Fi Risks: Protect Your Data Now
Your employees and customers have all visited stores and cafes or navigated public transportation systems offering patrons free Wi-Fi. Most people have happily connected to these networks, hoping for a faster connection or a quick update from work. Even so, ...
