Rich Galgano, serial entrepreneur, USA Today bestselling author, and founder of Windy City Wire (acquired for nearly $500 million in 2020), today announced the full commercial launch of Scylos, a next-generation secure endpoint platform built on a stateless architecture proven during the global CrowdStrike outage.
From manufacturing innovator to technology leader
Galgano first entered the secure endpoint space as an investor in a company holding critical IP the industry urgently needed. As the project encountered challenges that threatened its future, he stepped in to stabilize the effort and secure full ownership, ensuring the technology could advance with clarity and long-term direction. He is widely recognized for founding Windy City Wire, one of North America's leading low-voltage cable manufacturers and distributors, which he sold to FTSE 100 company Diploma PLC in 2020.
Scylos Switchboard: the management console
Scylos Switchboard is the management console that governs the ZeroCore runtime across distributed enterprises. Acting as both architectural rulebook and cloud-native control surface, it lets organizations operate at scale with zero onsite IT.
- Orchestrate and deploy workloads
- Govern routing and isolation
- Enforce immutability rules
- Apply access control and session governance
- Activate workloads securely with zero residue
- Rebuild endpoints in minutes and monitor fleet-wide device health
Proven during the CrowdStrike outage
During the July 2024 CrowdStrike Falcon outage that took millions of Windows endpoints offline, three machines running an early Scylos ZeroCore beta were the only systems that remained operational inside a major U.S. manufacturer.
When everything else failed and our beta devices stayed online, it proved exactly why ZeroCore had to exist.