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
Gmail Is Making Customization Easier for Businesses
If you use Google Workspace, you'll benefit considerably from the new features Google is rolling out in 2024's second quarter. The changes come primarily from Gmail templates and features, so anyone who sends emails can benefit. Keep reading to learn ...
Optimizing Your Digital Service Delivery
As a business owner who supplies digital services, you know how things outside your control can decrease your delivery capability. With the following tips for optimizing your digital service delivery, you empower your staff to deliver more consistent service and ...
The Benefits of Business Process Outsourcing
Maintaining steady growth and productivity requires a balance between in-house staff and outsourced resources. Business process outsourcing is an overarching term for outsourcing a specific business process task, such as payroll, app development, or customer service. What are the benefits ...
Beyond Penetration Testing: Embracing Risk Assessment for Real Security
Imagine for a moment that you have a valuable book. You decide to place it in the absolute best storage facility you can find. One day you go to the facility only to find your book is gone. You had ...
Improving Your Small Business
Small businesses face a high degree of competition on virtually all fronts. This level of competition means that small businesses must distinguish themselves from their contemporaries to achieve entrepreneurial success. When it comes to small business growth, tweaking the small ...
Microsoft’s Copilot Chatbot Builder
If you use chatbots to simplify repetitive tasks in your business, the news that Microsoft's Copilot Chatbot Builder is now a standard feature of a Copilot Pro subscription will be welcome. In addition, subscribers can now use Copilot within Microsoft ...
Understanding and Optimizing Small Business Server Hardware
Is your small business heading out of that “small” category? While that’s amazing news for your goals and bottom line, you’ll find some change necessary for continued plain sailing. One of these shifts involves your business’s hardware system, which needs ...
Gemini AI Can Help Format Your Google Slides
Google is proving to be a leader in the AI landscape with tools like Vertex AI, but it's the latest function in Google Slides that has small business owners feeling excited. Anyone who has spent hours creating a presentation only ...
AI in Marketing: Personalization and Targeting Strategies
Artificial intelligence allows companies to craft personalized ads that target specific demographics. Incorporating AI in marketing with the right personalization and targeting strategies can drive results higher and faster than what you may assume possible. What Exactly Is Personalized Marketing ...
Bitwarden’s Passkey Feature for Businesses
Today's companies need some way to authenticate user access to protect their systems and sensitive data from unauthorized access. Passwords are a common authentication method. Unfortunately, managing numerous passwords on a professional level can be tough. Bitwarden's passkey feature for ...
Why Your Provider NEEDS To Adhere To Your Standards
Would you go to a doctor who tells you to stay away from sugary drinks as he is standing there drinking a coke? Would you feel confident about a mechanic who tells you to get your brakes fixed but yet ...
Improving Productivity in the Workplace
As an employer, your primary focus is keeping your business afloat by maintaining staff productivity, which increases company efficiency and customer satisfaction. However, productivity can quickly decline if repetitive tasks make workers uninterested and tired, causing them to lose momentum. ...
