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
One Breach Can Erase Everything: Why Standardization Is the Only Way to Save Your Future
You didn’t build your MSP to babysit clients or chase one-off tickets. You built it for something bigger. You built it to create freedom—for your family, your future, your legacy. You stayed up late fixing outages. Missed vacations. Worked weekends ...
Launch Day Confession: I Thought About Faking a Cyber Incident Just to Delay Feedback
It’s here. Today’s the day. Standardized is officially out in the wild, and if you’re reading this—I’m asking for a favor: go grab your ...
You Bought the Tools. Congrats. You’re Still Not Secure.
Here’s a little thought I had while prepping for a talk I’m giving this week: Most MSPs think they’re secure because they bought a bunch of tools. They bought the firewall. The antivirus. The backup system with more redundancy than ...
Your MSP Carries More Risk Than a Magazine Stand—and That’s a Problem
Let’s talk about airport gift shops for a minute. You know the ones—tiny kiosks with $14 neck pillows, expired jerky, and three copies of Men’s Health no one’s ever going to read. Now, tell me—how much sensitive data do you ...
Automation Won’t Save You (If You’re Already in a Death Spiral)
I was talking to one of our partners yesterday, and he said something that made me pause. ...
Your Compliance Program Is a House of Cards (And You’re Playing with Fire)
I was at a security event last week, hanging out with some of the big brains in the MSP space. You know the type: sharp, seasoned, and absolutely certain they’ve got it all figured out. One MSP owner—a regional player ...
Your Operations Manager Won’t Be the One Getting Sued.
I was chatting with the owner of an MSP the other day when I noticed something weird. He seemed… relaxed. You know, like someone not carrying the weight of 2,500 endpoints and a 10-year liability tail on his back. So ...
Your Stack is a Joke—And Hackers Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank
Remember Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? Yeah, the one with booby traps around every corner. Spikes. Snakes. Fire pits. A crumbling rope bridge. Every step was unpredictable. Every move had consequences. The treasure? Locked down tighter than a ...
That Little Blinky Box? It Might Be the Hacker’s Way In.
Let’s skip the latest noise from Wall Street for a minute. Forget the tariffs. Forget the news drama. Did you catch what CISA just dropped into the “Known Exploited Vulnerabilities” catalog? No? You should have. Because this one’s not theoretical. ...
Your Clients Aren’t Paying for Security—They’re Paying for You
Let’s get one thing straight: security is not your value proposition. I know, that sounds insane coming from the security guy. But hear me out. Security is table stakes. It’s the cover charge to play in this game. You can—and ...
How One MSP Is Stealing Clients (Without Being the Bad Guy)
The Secret Sales Strategy That Turns Prospects into Clients—Even When They Say No I just got off the phone with one of our partners. He’s smiling—because his sales are working. And let me tell you, it’s not because he hired ...
Your Projects Are Dying—And It’s Your Help Desk’s Fault
You want to grow this quarter. You’ve got the usual goals—top-line revenue, smoother project execution, better support delivery. But there’s something broken in your org chart that’s killing your progress, and you don’t even see it. You’re blending projects with ...
