The Lock & Key Lounge — An ArmorText Original Podcast
The Lock & Key Lounge — An ArmorText Original Podcast
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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.
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The podcast delves into various aspects of cybersecurity and legal issues, focusing on real-world challenges such as incident response, cybercrime innovation, legal compliance, and operational security. Episodes include analyses of significant breaches like the 'Salt Typhoon', discussions on regulations such as the Presidential Records Act, and explorations of the implications of using consumer encryption apps for government communication.

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.
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 from the perspective of a practitioner who has responded to many OT outages. my guest in this episode is the most understated intellectual powerhouse you’ll meet in the Digital Forensics and Incident response field.:
- What Digital Forensics and IR actually looks like in OT
- Why OT incident rates are low — and what that does and doesn't mean for your risk posture
- The all-hazards approach: which includes malicious state-actors, but also squirrels, human error,
- The current state of Nation-state activity in OT:
My guest today is Chris Sistrunk, Chris is the Technical Leader on the Mandiant ICS/OT Security Consulting team, part of Google Cloud, where he has been for the better part of a decade. Before Mandiant, he was the Senior Engineer at Entergy for over a decade, overseeing the Transmission and Distribution SCADA systems
Chris helped stand up the ICS Village at DEF CON, co-founded the BEER-ISAC, and is one of the most respected voices on the topic of the dangerous world of squirrels.

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