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
Prioritizing Email Security as SaaS Costs Surge
No one ever said running a business would be cheap. Still, with market inflation in recent years, business owners like you are seeing unprecedented surges in certain costs. As consumer inflation rates increase, so do tech prices, which have nearly ...
Social Media: Your Secret Weapon for Business Growth
Keeping your business competitive in today’s always-connected world requires a robust social media presence. Entrepreneurs who leverage their Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, and Pinterest profiles can stand out among their competition, foster brand awareness and audience engagement, and, most ...
Technology: The Backbone of Effective Business Continuity Planning
Getting your business up and running is a challenge, especially when building a new brand from the ground up that must compete with similar long-standing companies. It would help if you advertised to get your target audience's attention and regularly ...
Why Your Cyber Insurance May Fail
Think Your Cyber Insurance Will Save You? Think Again. Imagine your company just got hit with a ransomware attack. Files are locked, operations are at a standstill, and the clock is ticking. But you’ve got cyber insurance, right? No sweat. ...
Travel Safely: Shielding Mobile Brands from Scams
Many people enjoy the convenience of mobile brands when planning vacations. Hackers have taken advantage of this to implement all sorts of travel-based scams. This is frightening both to consumers—who may find themselves facing financial and emotional repercussions—and business owners—who ...
Simplifying IT: The Power of Single-Stack Networking
Everything a business does converts to data, from buying and selling products and services to collecting customer information and market research that helps the company make informed decisions. The company stores this data in databases, hard drives, and other hardware ...
Businesses Seek Automation Without Disrupting Operations
While running a business can be an exciting feat, tedious and repetitive tasks combine with the more rewarding ones, draining employers and workers alike. From handling returns that could be automated to responding in customer chats with answers a bot ...
NASA & Microsoft Unite: Earth Copilot AI Revolution
Whatever business you’re running, you depend on a lot of research to make decisions, launch new ideas, and refine mountains of data for employees, partners, customers, and clients. Not everyone is a thought leader in their field, and, understandably, some ...
Hackers Exploit CCTV Camera Flaws
Is your establishment’s surveillance system as secure as you think? Gone are the days when these security measures were a set-and-forget solution. Hackers have learned to take advantage of and breach CCTV camera flaws. Keep reading to learn more. How ...
Massive Cyberattack Leaves Thousands of Domains Exposed
How often have you seen a company without an online presence? Your answer is likely, “Not very often.” Owners at any level will have at least one social media page that connects them to their customers online, even if they ...
Security Audits Are Failing You—Here’s Why You Need to Think Like a Hacker
Captain Crunch. This is the name given to one of the first known hackers in history. It was the 1970’s and “Mr. Crunch” hacked the computer system that ran the telephone system using a whistle he got from.....you guessed it, ...
Trust in Passwords Persists Despite AI Security Threats
How many passwords do you have? Or better yet, how many services or accounts do you have that require you to set a username and password for security? Most people believe that passwords are effective in keeping information secure. A ...
