Joshua Steinman

Co-Founder & CEO, Galvanick · 1 appearance on the record.

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Joshua Steinman is the co-founder and CEO of Galvanick, an industrial cybersecurity company protecting critical infrastructure. Previously, he served as Senior Director for Cyber Policy on the National Security Council and helped conceptualize the Department of Defense's Defense Innovation Unit.

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The record, in short

What the tape says about how Joshua argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Steinman: Chinese cyber actors are pre-positioned inside US critical infrastructure

“There are reports to Congress, open testimony by directors of national intelligence that the Chinese and the Russians and the Iranians and the North Koreans, but especially the Chinese, have been prolific in their efforts in the cyber domain to essentially pre…”

Joshua Steinman Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 40:55 CEOs of Epirus & Galvanick on the Future of Defense & Cybersecurity · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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What they said6 Episodes1

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Assertion Not checkable as stated

Steinman: Almost no industrial facilities worldwide have basic cybersecurity protection

“Most data moves over industrial networks unencrypted. Most industrial equipment simply receives any instruction sent to it with the proper protocol and just starts executing it. And so this is a huge problem. There's no security on industrial facilities on alm…”

Joshua Steinman Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 34:19 CEOs of Epirus & Galvanick on the Future of Defense & Cybersecurity · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Assertion Supported

Steinman: Chinese cyber actors are pre-positioned inside US critical infrastructure

Joshua Steinman Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 40:55 CEOs of Epirus & Galvanick on the Future of Defense & Cybersecurity · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Insight

Steinman: The easiest way to defeat a weapon is on the factory floor

“The easiest way to defeat a weapon system is on the factory floor. And so the defense industrial base is where the fight is happening right now.”

Joshua Steinman Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 39:24 CEOs of Epirus & Galvanick on the Future of Defense & Cybersecurity · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Steinman: AI will cause a Cambrian explosion in software vulnerability discovery

“So what it really means is one, the discovery of vulnerabilities in systems is very likely Going to experience this like Cambrian explosion, as people say, right? What took a single person or a group of people, you know, a lot of time, a lot of energy to try a…”

Joshua Steinman Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 48:18 CEOs of Epirus & Galvanick on the Future of Defense & Cybersecurity · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Steinman: White House study found under 10,000 Americans work in industrial cybersecurity

“In fact, when I was at the White House, I chartered a study. You have like researchers that work for you there. And we found less than 10,000 Americans that do that.”

Joshua Steinman Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 36:59 CEOs of Epirus & Galvanick on the Future of Defense & Cybersecurity · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

Prediction Held up

Steinman: The US will not mandate security clearances for AI engineers

“I think they should. I don't think they will. It's just really hard, right? Like you're gonna go to a private company and say these people have to have clearances.”

Joshua Steinman Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 51:35 CEOs of Epirus & Galvanick on the Future of Defense & Cybersecurity · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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