CISO:
Holding the Line

A three-part documentary series on thedecisions, pressure, and leadershipshaping modern cybersecurityPresented by Nagomi Security inpartnership with Hacker Valley Media

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Why We Hit Record

Behind every breach headline is a CISO navigating chaos,making hard decisions with incomplete information,absorbing blame, and paying a personal cost that rarelymakes the story.

Holding the line means carrying pressure so others cankeep moving, standing behind judgment calls when scrutinyarrives. Success passes quietly. Failure never does.

CISO: Holding the Line exists because that reality rarelygets told straight.

Created by Nagomi Security in partnership with HackerValley Media, this docuseries focuses on the human side of cybersecurity leadership, the people trusted to holdsteady when it matters.

Behind The Lens

Go behind the camera to see how CISO:Holding the line was built, one rawconversation, real story, and hard truth ata time.

The CISO job is an art, it’s not a science. It’s never black and white. It’s never right or wrong. It’s always about finding a line to draw.

Yabing Wang

CISO at Justworks

The Front Line for
CISO Advocacy

The Professional Association of CISOs(PAC) exists to protect, support, andadvocate for the people who protecteveryone else.

I have a dream—we live in a digital world that gives us all the productivity, without targeting the people trying to deliver and protect it with personal liability.

Edna Conway

Former CISO at Microsoft and Cisco

What Holding the Line Really Costs

CISO: Holding the Line tells the human stories. The NagomiCISO Pressure Index report puts data behind them,quantifying the pressure, burnout, and tradeoffs CISOs faceevery day.

As cyber incidents increase in frequency and impact, drivenby agentic AI and more capable threat actors, expectationscontinue to rise. Boards demand clearer risk metrics,regulators raise the bar, and budgets tighten.

Based on a survey of more than 100 CISOs, The 2025Nagomi CISO Pressure Index captures how these forcesconverge, revealing the growing strain on security leadersand the widening gap between responsibility and support.

CISO STATS

87%

say pressure hasincreased in thepast 12 months

67%

burned out weeklyor daily

59%

fear agentic AI attacks most

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CISOs aren’t just dealing with risk – they’re internalizing it. We have to figurethis out together.

Charles Blauner

Former CISO at Citi Bank and JP Morgan

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The weight behind the title

A documentary series from Nagomi and Hacker Valley Media. Real CISOs, unscripted, on the pressure, the isolation, and the decisions that kept them up at night — and why they stayed anyway.

Why Would Anyone Want to Be a CISO?

The one role everyone wants influence over and no one wants to answer for. Security leaders open up about what pulled them into the job - and what it asked of them once they had it.

The Night It All Landed on Me

When the alerts fire at 2 a.m., one person carries it. A CISO walks through the incident that nearly broke them - the board calls, the fallout, and the choice they'd still make again.

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