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
33 episodes
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...
Podcast#15 Ghosts in the Codebase
The Nightmares Acquirers Often MissBehind the glossy surfaces of emerging tech and M&A deals lies a quiet but critical risk: compromised code, embedded threat actors, and the increasing industrialization of the cybercriminal e...
Podcast#14 When Food Stops Moving
The Cyber Risks We’re Still IgnoringIn today’s episode, we’re diving into the quiet crises already happening in the fields, warehouses, and distribution networks we depend on every day—and why so few in cybersecurity are...
Podcast#13 Out-of-Band or Out of Luck
Communicating When You Can’t Trust the NetworkWhen adversaries can read the playbook—searching email, SharePoint, Teams/Slack, and even joining incident response calls—communication becomes the attack surface. That’s why the FBI n...
Podcast#12 Investigating the Insider You Never Hired
Unpacking Regulatory, Contractual, and Sanctions Challenges from DPRK-Affiliated SchemesToday, we’re zeroing in on a uniquely challenging scenario—what happens when the insider threat isn’t an employee at all, but rather a remote ...
Podcast #11 Legal Fallout
Navigating Remote Worker DeceptionToday we’ll explore the legal landmines that organizations face when uncovering remote workers connected to adversarial states like the DPRK. We'll unpack critical questions about liability, discl...
Podcast #10 Forecasting Cyber Chaos
How Extreme Weather Disrupts Digital DefensesWhen the forecast calls for hurricanes, floods, wildfires or heat waves, most organizations are focused on physical risk. But what happens when cyber risk rides shotgun with those storm...
