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Windy City Wire Founder Rich Galgano Enters Secure Endpoint Computing with Scylos — Powered by ZeroCore and Managed by the Scylos Switchboard

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 24, 2025-- 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.

Galgano’s Vision & Legacy

Galgano is widely recognized for founding Windy City Wire, one of North America’s leading low-voltage cable manufacturers and distributors. In 2020, he sold the company to Diploma PLC (LSE: DPLM), a FTSE 100 company, and continued as CEO following the acquisition, guiding the organization through record growth and expansion.

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 enables organizations to:

  • 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
  • Monitor fleet-wide device health
  • Operate distributed sites with zero onsite IT

Switchboard ensures every ZeroCore device remains clean, consistent, intentional, and protected from drift.

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,” said Galgano.

About Scylos

Scylos delivers a stateless, containerized endpoint platform built on ZeroCore, a proprietary runtime bootloader, and governed by Scylos Switchboard, a single-tenant cloud-deployed management console. Its ultra-lightweight, locked-down runtime activates cloud-managed containers with zero local footprint, eliminating patching, persistence, and drift. Designed for industrial, retail, healthcare, and distributed enterprises, Scylos enables a modern zero-trust endpoint model.

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