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
From TikTok to Trouble: Why Ambiguity in the Cyber Landscape is a Disaster Waiting to Happen
Have you been following what’s happening with TikTok? Is it banned? Safe? Legal? The debate is messy, chaotic, and extremely ambiguous. The TikTok saga is a masterclass in how uncertainty breeds chaos, legal exposure, and eroded trust. Ambiguity appears to ...
Enterprise Agility Starts with Empowering Your People
If you think back just five years, the world was completely different. Thanks to factors like the global pandemic and the rise of AI, businesses are facing disruption and change on an unprecedented scale. Unfortunately, most companies don’t feel like ...
From Weak Links to Fortified Chains: Why Understanding and Documenting Risk Is Essential
Every day, you make decisions that could shape or shatter your organization’s future. Among the most critical are those related to cybersecurity. A cyberattack could cost your organization millions, expose your customers, and destroy your reputation. So, when you make ...
Automatic Framing Arrives for All Google Meet Users
If there’s one thing that almost everyone can agree upon, looking good on video calls for work can often feel more difficult than necessary. The latest Google Workspace updates may not be able to tame your bedhead or fix your ...
Preparing Organizations for AI: Strategies for Success
To anyone outside the technology field, the idea of artificial intelligence likely worries them about their jobs. After all, nothing's changed enterprise operations quite as much in recent years, and there's confusion and anxiety about how technology is reshaping how ...
Why Documentation is Critical to Your Cybersecurity
The Hidden Danger Lurking in Your Business Would you happily board a plane if you knew the crew skipped safety checks? What if you knew the engines haven’t been inspected, the fuel system wasn’t verified, and the pilot has no ...
Defending Against AI-Driven Phishing: Business Protection Strategies
Business leaders have an alarming new security risk to address: AI-driven phishing threats. Surveys reveal that over half of business leaders have been targets of email phishing attempts in the last two years. These attacks are an urgent concern because ...
NVIDIA Launches Omniverse Digital Twin Software
Simulations and modeling are critical elements of the aerospace, energy, and manufacturing design process. Traditionally, they add weeks or months to a project timeline. Still, with the release of the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint digital twin software, designers may be able ...
WARNING: Cyber Lawsuits Ahead - Protect Your Business from Ambulance Chasers
Data breaches are devastating, and they’re happening more often. Confidential client or customer information is leaked, trust is broken, and the damage ripples across your organization. But the worst part? The lawsuits that follow. In today’s world, organizations like yours ...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents Transform Workflows
2025 will bring some exciting developments for businesses that rely on Microsoft 365 to manage day-to-day workflows more efficiently. As part of its Ignite 2024 announcement, Microsoft unveiled several AI agents for workflows that work alongside existing tools to address ...
Microsoft Teams Boosts Productivity With Faster Translations
Microsoft Teams allows teams to connect from around the world, and with the latest update to multilingual meeting features, it’s about to become even better. Thanks to changes and upgrades to Microsoft Teams translations, videoconferencing software users will soon be ...
Can Your Organization Survive the Year of Accountability?
Hopes. Dreams. Plans. These are the buzzwords we hear every January. But in 2025, there’s a new word demanding your attention and the life of your organization depends on you taking it seriously. What is that word? Accountability. The cybersecurity ...
