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
Maximizing ROI: Unlocking AI’s Full Potential
As companies worldwide invest billions into artificial intelligence solutions, one big question remains: Is it all worth it? While this technology can improve productivity and efficiency, unlocking AI’s full potential requires your business to master objectivity. It’s easy to assume ...
Will your organization win the Cyber War?
A new report issued by the World Economic Forum (WEF) is clear: organizations with fewer than 100 employees are losing ground in the fight against cyber threats. The report, Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025, warns that as geopolitical tensions and technological ...
Why Most AI Startups Are Doomed to Fail
The recent surge of tech startups focused on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions has analysts raising the alarm about the potential for mass startup failures. However, many of these new businesses don't recognize the pitfalls of AI development. Their rush to ...
Google Predicts Top Cybersecurity Threats for 2025
Staying on top of cybersecurity threats as a business owner is no walk in the park. These strides demand the right antivirus programs, firewalls, and security teams, to name a few. However, because online attacks are always evolving, your business ...
Protecting Our Children: What the PowerSchool Data Breach Means for You
In December 2024, hackers breached PowerSchool, a trusted provider of cloud-based software for K-12 schools, exposing deeply personal information about millions of children, parents, and educators. Among the data stolen were Social Security numbers, grades, medical records, and contact details, ...
Google Scam Advisory Issued to Protect Users
Companies like yours like to stay ahead of the competition, which may include keeping your most successful strategies out of sight of other business owners. Many advertising agencies implement these types of cloaking strategies, hoping to keep others from noticing ...
AI Unmasked: AI Deepfake Detection Tool Exposes Fake Content
As a business owner in the modern era, you know that image is everything. You need your company to become successful, so you want to prove you’re heading up a reputable brand that attracts customer loyalty and invites high-end partners. ...
2.6 Million Users Exposed: The Cybersecurity Threat You Can’t Ignore
Cybersecurity probably wasn’t at the forefront of your brain as you prepared for the holidays and then rang in the new year. However, as 2024 drew to a close, a massive cybersecurity attack targeting 2.6 million people made headlines. These ...
What T-Mobile and Westend Dental Taught Us About Breach Survival…and Failure
Remember in school when you learned stop, drop, and roll as the game plan for dealing with fire? You and your classmates may have even practiced stopping what you were doing, dropping to the ground, and rolling as a way ...
Will AI Make IT Service Desks Obsolete?
As a business owner, you’ve come across artificial intelligence at one point or another. Maybe you can use an AI-powered chatbot to answer your customers’ questions or conduct lightning-fast data analyses of your customers’ browsing and buying trends. What do ...
Mastering the Art of Effective Email Campaigns
How many emails did you receive today? How many of those emails were marketing messages from a company trying to get you to request more information, buy something, or buy more? Most of the emails you receive daily are part ...
When “Google” Isn’t Google: A Lesson in Online Trust That Could Save Your Organization
Imagine searching for Google and landing on what looks like Google’s homepage. But here’s the catch: you’re actually on a Microsoft Bing page designed to look like Google! Confusing? You bet. That’s the point. This recently exposed tactic demonstrates just ...
