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 rarely makes the story.
Holding the line means carrying pressure so others can keep moving, standing behind judgment calls when scrutiny arrives. Success passes quietly. Failure never does.
CISO: Holding the Line exists because that reality rarely gets told straight.
Created by Nagomi Security in partnership with Hacker Valley Media, this docuseries focuses on the human side of cybersecurity leadership, the people trusted to hold steady when it matters.
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Behind The Lens
Go behind the camera to see how CISO: Holding the line was built, one raw conversation, real story, and hard truth at a 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 Just Works
The Front Line for CISO Advocacy
The Professional Association of CISOs (PAC) exists to protect, support, and advocate for the people who protect everyone 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 Nagomi CISO Pressure Index report puts data behind them, quantifying the pressure, burnout, and tradeoffs CISOs face every day.
As cyber incidents increase in frequency and impact, driven by agentic AI and more capable threat actors, expectations continue to rise. Boards demand clearer risk metrics, regulators raise the bar, and budgets tighten.
Based on a survey of more than 100 CISOs, The 2025 Nagomi CISO Pressure Index captures how these forces converge, revealing the growing strain on security leaders and the widening gap between responsibility and support.
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say pressure has increased in the past 12 months
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burned out weekly or daily
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fear agentic AI attacks most
CISOs aren’t just dealing with risk – they’re internalizing it. We have to figure this out together.
– Charles Blauner | Former CISO at Citi Bank and JP Morgan
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