The Lock & Key Lounge — An ArmorText Original Podcast
Welcome to The Lock & Key Lounge, the official podcast from ArmorText, the leader in secure out-of-band communications. Each episode brings you into the conversation with the sharpest minds in cybersecurity, law, critical infrastructure, intelligence, and government. We go beyond the headlines and vendor buzzwords to unpack real-world challenges—from incident response and cybercrime innovation to legal landmines, boardroom decisions, and threat intelligence at scale.
Pull up a chair, pour a drink, and join us as we explore what it takes to stay resilient in a world where operational security, compliance, and communication have never been more intertwined.
Available wherever you stream your podcasts, or right here on ArmorText.com.
Episodes
39 episodes
Podcast Rewind: Collective Defense Under Pressure
This throwback takes us back to one of the earliest conversations on The Lock & Key Lounge, recorded in spring 2025, and the questions it raised have not gone away. At the time, budget cuts and workforce reductions were rippling through fed...
Podcast #38 OT Incident Response: Critical Lessons from the Field
Welcome to the show. I'm Matt Calligan with ArmorText coming to you from the Modern Midwest - Des Moines Iowa. Bringing you this episode while speaking at a fusion center event and in this episode, we're getting back into OT territory but...
Podcast #37 The Feedback Loop
And you know, I'm quite proud of the ground this podcast has covered over the past 18 months — we've had some fascinating guests and insightful topics, but today, you can add “reuniting old colleagues” to the things this podcast has accomplishe...
Podcast#36 Trust Can't Be Scripted
Today's conversation starts from a simple premise: trust is infrastructure. You can't automate it, you can't shortcut it, and in OT environments — where engineers are professionally paid to be suspicious of anything new — you can't test what yo...
The Lock & Key Lounge - RIFF Edition 7
Communicare Aut Perire — How You Talk, What You Know, Who You Trust — Field Notes 2026 in Five Voices"Secure communications" was never just about the tool. In this solo narration episode, Matt Calligan trades the usual inter...
The Lock & Key Lounge - RIFF Edition 6
In this RIFF Edition, Navroop and Matt react to Field Notes, ArmorText's first annual user conference, held at the Classic Car Club in Manhattan under one rule — no vendor pitches, including from the vendor hosting it. From a keynote delivered ...
Podcast #32 - Vendor Cooties
Should We Rethink the Practitioner/Vendor Relationship in Cybersecurity?There is a deeply ingrained, culturally accepted reflex in cybersecurity: Keep vendor sales and marketing people at arm's length during any serious evalu...
Podcast #31 All Tools, No People: Cybersecurity Is Missing The Boring Human Investment
OT security spending is at an all-time high, yet all these tools do is fill the “do we have X product” hole if the organization isn't investing in a human-driven aggregation layer to curate and make decisions based on the telemetry and data pou...
Podcast #30 Faster Than Human
Anthropic's Project Glasswing used a restricted AI model to surface over ten thousand high-severity vulnerabilities across more than a thousand open-source projects. The 2026 Verizon DBIR tells us vulnerability exploitation just became the numb...
Podcast #29 The Structures That Hold
Building Governance that Holds Because the Mission Demands It—Not Because Anyone Required ItWe have spent years in this industry talking about who belongs in the room—the board table, the executive suite, the security leadersh...
Podcast #28 196 Countries, One CISO
Most security leaders spend their careers building programs in the private sector—strong compensation, clear organizational lines, and at least some degree of control over the stakeholder map. Occasionally, someone makes a different call. Bjørn...
Podcast #27 Grid Resiliency: It Must Be A Bottoms Up Approach
When we talk about securing the electric grid, the conversation usually focuses on preventing outages or protecting the biggest, most visible assets like large power plants, transmission lines, and control centers. But operators know the harder...
Podcast#26: Blackstarts and Blindspots
How AI can turn air gaps into security gaps for ICS/SCADAFor decades, critical infrastructure companies have relied on organizational silos—air gaps between IT and operational technology—to ensure that enterprise disruptions do no...
The Lock & Key Lounge - RIFF Edition 5
In this RIFF Edition, Navroop and Matt work through seven stories spanning different sectors, threat actors, and tools—but one failure mode: the layer underneath your security stack is the actual attack surface. From the collapse of patching wi...
Podcast#24 : The Board Has No Playbook
In the days since the US-Israel strikes against Iran, business guidance has been pouring in from analyst firms, newsrooms, and government agencies—but roughly ninety percent of the coverage focuses on cyber-attack preparedness and supply chain ...
Podcast#23 When AI Becomes the Attack Surface
Today’s topic is AI, and before you click off let me stop you because we’re coming at this topic from some new directions and with a definitive voice in this space. As organizations accelerate AI adoption across cloud platforms and security ope...
The Lock & Key Lounge — RIFF Edition 4
In this RIFF, we connect recent headlines to the realities of communicating during a crisis.Headline 1: Verizon and Microsoft 365/Outlook outagesWhen your primary tools go dark, approvals stall, and coordination breaks ...
Podcast#20 Secure Isn't the Same as Defensible Part 2
What the Signal IG Report Teaches Enterprises About Communications RiskThis episode touches on a topic we initially covered in Episode #2 where discussed the Signal/Atlantic group chat with Marisa Darden of Benesch Law. The latest...
Podcast#20 Secure Isn’t the Same as Defensible Part 1
What the Signal IG Report Teaches Enterprises About Communications RiskThis episode touches on a topic we initially covered in Episode #2 where discussed the Signal/Atlantic group chat with Marisa Darden of Benesch Law. The latest...
The Lock & Key Lounge — RIFF Edition 3, LIVE in Saudi Arabia
Join Navroop and his guest Crowell and Moring's Global Co Chair on Privacy and Cyber, Emma Wright live in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as they continue their discussion over dinner and mock-tails right on the heels of their speaking session at Black Ha...
Podcast#18 The Humanity Firewall
The Benefits of Developing People Skills That Are Missing From Today’s Cybersecurity TeamsWhy tomorrow’s cybersecurity leaders will rise not through deeper technical mastery, but through empathy, translation, and human connection....
The Lock & Key Lounge - RIFF Edition 2
From Signal getting squeezed by AWS to Microsoft Teams launching what some think as spyware, the stories this week all circle the same theme: trust, resilience, and sovereignty.
The Lock & Key Lounge — RIFF Edition 1
Welcome to The Lock & Key Lounge, debuting its first-ever RIFF Edition — a new, unscripted spin on security conversations hosted by Navroop Mitter, Founder and CEO of ArmorText, alongside Matt. In this episode, the duo riff through a series...
