RESEARCH
Threat Thursday: June 4th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic's weekly threat intelligence roundup. This week's stories have a clear pattern: attackers didn't find obscure entry points or novel techniques but instead went after the things you were already using and already trusting. As always, ...
Communicating Risk
The Silent Killer in Your MSP: Ambiguity
You think you’re being clear. You told the client they needed MFA. You recommended better backups. You flagged that firewall. But when things go sideways—when data’s lost, insurance denies the claim, or the lawyers come knocking—they don’t remember your recommendations. ...
The #1 Role Every MSP Must Embrace Before a Competitor Replaces You
Your Clients Don’t Need Another IT Vendor. They Need a Cybersecurity Leader. If you’re still selling managed services like it’s 2015, you’re already losing. The MSP market has shifted. The stakes are higher. Clients aren’t asking how many tickets you ...
Your Marketing Sounds Like It Was Written by a Robot—Because It Was
Let’s be honest. You’re slammed with tickets, chasing down weird user issues, and trying not to lose your mind over Janet’s printer—again. So when someone suggests using AI to handle your marketing, it sounds like a miracle. Here’s the problem: ...
Dark Web Monitoring & Threat Intelligence
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 ...
Human Layer Security
The Deepfake Was Convincing. So Was My Backpack.
Why Social Engineering Still Works, Why AI is Making it Sharper, and the One Habit that Stops it In early 2024, an employee at Arup, a global engineering firm, joined a video call with several colleagues, including someone who appeared ...
New State Cyber Rules Are Coming—Will You Be Ready, or Be the One They Blame?
California. New York. Massachusetts. One by one, states are turning up the heat on cybersecurity regulations—and if you're not preparing your clients for what’s coming, you're not just behind. You're exposed. Last week I blogged about upcoming California rules requiring ...
16 Billion Reasons to Change Your Password—Now
You ever wake up and feel like the bad guys are winning? I do. Today especially. Because if you thought May’s headline—184 million stolen credentials splashed across the dark web—was terrifying, you’d better sit down for this one. The latest ...
More Articles
The Deepfake Was Convincing. So Was My Backpack.
Why Social Engineering Still Works, Why AI is Making it Sharper, and the One Habit that Stops it In early 2024, an employee at Arup, a global engineering firm, joined a video call with several colleagues, including someone who appeared ...
Your Best Salespeople Aren’t in Sales. They’re on the Floor.
Last night I went out to dinner. I’m an early-to-bed guy, which means I eat when restaurants are still serving happy hour menus. This was New Orleans, so happy hour still meant good food and strong opinions. I was halfway through an appetizer when I overheard ...
The Hard Truth: Your Security Stack Isn’t as Standardized as You Think
Most MSP owners believe they have a standard security stack. They can list the tools, explain why they chose them, and describe what “good security” looks like for their clients. But when you step back and look across your entire ...
The One Assumption Clients Are Making About You Right Now
A few weeks ago, I had dinner in New Orleans with a family friend. He owns a small law firm in Texas. Smart. Successful. A great client by any MSP’s standards. The kind of client I would have gladly built ...
Before You Sell Security, Ask Yourself This: Who’s Liable When It Fails?
Every MSP wants to talk about cybersecurity when things are going well. New tools, new programs, and a clean vCSO pitch that sounds great in a sales call and looks great in a slide deck. Dashboards, frameworks, and maturity models that promise progress and control. ...
The Control Creep Problem: Why MSPs Keep Adding Controls but Still Miss the Point
If you’ve been in the MSP world for long, you’ve probably noticed this pattern. A new product hits the channel, and we rush to add a control. A vendor releases a shiny capability, and we bolt that on. A client asks, “Are we protected from this?” and ...
Your SOW Is Costing You Clients: The MSP Blind Spot That Destroys Trust Before the Work Even Starts
A while back, I got a call from an MSP owner who sounded like he had just finished gargling battery acid. He told me he lost a client he had supported for ...
Your Security Tools Are Lying to You. Here’s Proof.
It starts like every other sales call with an organization that has its own internal IT department. The prospect’s IT team walks you through their stack. They brag about their EDR. They’ve got a fancy firewall. They’ve got “AI‑powered everything.” ...
The First Four Hours of a Breach: Why They’ll Make or Break Your Holidays
It’s Christmas Day. You’re finally off the clock, enjoying time with family and friends when the dreaded call comes. Customer systems are going down. Ransomware demands are popping up. Your phone lights up like a Christmas tree…and you’re hours away ...
Stop Getting Mad When Your Client Won’t Buy Compliance
You know the look. You explain how they need MFA, a risk assessment, documented policies, backups that actually restore… and your client stares back at you like you just recited the GDPR in ancient Greek. You leave the meeting frustrated. ...
Your AI Assistant Just Got Hijacked And You Didn’t Even Notice
If a hacker walked into your office and started whispering instructions to your best engineer — would you let it happen? Of course not. But that’s exactly what’s happening… quietly… invisibly… right now. Your AI just got hijacked. And it’s still smiling, taking notes, and answering ...
“Fined Without a Breach?” Why the Wojeski $60,000 Penalty Matters—even if You Think You’re Small
You’ve seen two kinds of headlines after cyber incidents: (1) lawsuits and (2) regulatory enforcement. The recent $60,000 fine against Wojeski ...
