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
Use Analytics to Optimize Your Business Marketing and Sales Strategy
Analytics tell a story about your business’s current and past success. But how do you translate analytics into a narrative that helps you make marketing and sales decisions? Using analytics to optimize ...
Google’s Bug Bounty Program: A Step Towards Safer Apps
In 2021, Google paid $8.7 million to researchers to find security vulnerabilities in its products and services. The year after that, the tech giant gave out $12 million. Since it launched its ...
Transforming Business with Emerging Technologies
Navigating the vast ocean of business is no easy task. The helm of your ship is in your hands, and you have the power to steer your company toward uncharted territories. The ...
Security By Design- The New Way To Think Safe
Do you remember the pre-flip phone era? Viruses were a nuisance, but not earth-shattering. Once in a while you’d get that weird little ...
The Power of Data Visualization: Tips for Presenting Complex Data for Better Decision-Making
Data visualization is both a tool and an art that businesses can use to communicate goals, analytics, and other information in a simple but optical presentation. Humans naturally seek patterns within data ...
Unlocking Efficiency and Optimization: Exploring CMMS
Running a business means looking after all your assets, from your property and equipment to your inventory. A good way to do this is by using CMMS software. CMMS stands for Computerized ...
Recovering Trust: Meta’s Refund Initiatives for Advertising Glitch Provide Relief to Affected Advertisers
Imagine putting money into an ad plan and having a tech issue cause costs to skyrocket. This issue hit many businesses when Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, faced a ...
Understanding and Mitigating Brute-Force Attacks
Recently, a team of researchers from Zhejiang University and Tencent Labs uncovered a new type of cyberattack, termed "BrutePrint." This approach targets the fingerprint authentication commonly found on today's smartphones. This is ...
Embracing Password Passkeys: Strengthening Business Security in the Password-less Era
Passwords protect our privacy but don't offer the most convenient experience. Tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft show that there's a better alternative: passkeys. They are a different form of login ...
Best Practices To Keep in Mind Against Cybersecurity Threats
As a business owner, you must take every precaution to safeguard your company's data. Cybersecurity threats can harm your success and the future of your company. Guarding against these risks is essential ...
Maximizing Business Success with Big Data and Analytics
Companies today can tap into a wealth of data to guide them in making sound choices. That's why big data and analytics offer great advantages. They help you understand customers, markets, and ...
Are you ready to find your way out of a minefield created by scammers?
Your employees are standing in the middle of a minefield. Every day there are more and more scams just below the surface ...
