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
Part 2: For the Price of Coffee, You Can Avoid Buying a Hacker a Yacht
Last time we looked at why tabletop exercises matter and how they can reveal the cracks MSPs don’t notice until it’s ...
Dropping the Bricks and Picking Up What Matters
Have you ever felt like you’re carrying around a ton of bricks? Not the sturdy, well-stacked kind either. I’m talking about the ones someone tossed into your backpack one by one until you’re hunched over, wondering why your knees suddenly ...
Part 1: For the Price of Coffee, You Can Avoid Buying a Hacker a Yacht
It always starts like a normal day. You grab coffee, drop your lunch in the fridge, skim through tickets and emails, maybe ...
If You Missed the Security Chaos of the ‘90s, You’re in Luck!
We’re all seeing it. AI is changing how we approach nearly every part of business. It’s taking meeting notes, spitting out action items, and building chatbots to handle the flood of internal questions. The potential benefits for busy teams and ...
Shadow IT Just Went Legal—and It's Coming for Your MRR
Earlier this year, a quiet courtroom in the Central District of California made noise the entire cybersecurity industry should be hearing: for the first time ever: a federal judge used the term “Shadow IT” in a legal ruling. And just ...
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 ...
Vibe Hacking: The AI Nightmare Your Clients Aren’t Ready For
Do you have a plan to save your clients from the next big cybercrime wave? Because it’s already here. And it has a name: vibe hacking. Sounds harmless, right? Like something your marketing intern came up with after too much ...
Your Clients Are Already Breaking the AI Rules You Never Wrote
Let’s get real. Your clients are already using AI. They’re excited about how much more “effective” it makes them. Which means they’re doing the one thing you begged them not to do: Uploading PII? Happening. Copy-pasting sensitive client records into ...
The Portal Problem: Are You Still Driving a Horse and Buggy?
I was talking to an MSP the other day who said, “The portal’s slow. I can’t ever find what I need.” So I asked him, “When’s the last time you logged in?” His answer? A few months ago. Holy cow. ...
New California Audit Law Just Put Your MSP on the Hook. Here’s How to Turn It Into Recurring Revenue
If your clients process sensitive data, your MSP is now part of the legal conversation. On July 24, 2025, California finalized new rules that require businesses processing high-risk personal information to undergo annual, independent cybersecurity audits. This isn’t just for ...
Your Copilot Might Be Working for the Other Side
Let’s play a game. Imagine you hire a new assistant. Bright. Helpful. Always eager to please. You ask it to pull a report. It delivers. You ask it to summarize last quarter’s numbers. Done in seconds. Now imagine that same ...
The Dangerous Assumptions You’re Making
Your clients are making assumptions about you right now. They assume you’ve got their security handled. They assume you’re gathering the evidence. They assume you’ve already written their incident response plan. But here’s the problem: they’re wrong. I was on ...
