CISO:
Holding the Line

A three-part documentary series on the decisions, pressure, and leadership shaping modern cybersecurity presented by Nagomi Security.

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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 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, 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.

Behind the scenes of the CISO: Holding the Line docuseries

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 protect everyone else.

CISO advocacy, from the CISO: Holding the Line docuseries

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.
CISO STATS
87%

say pressure has increased in the past 12 months

67%

burned out weekly or 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 Security. 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.
Episode 01
Leadership
The human cost
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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.
Episode 02
Incident response
Burnout
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Why We Need Someone Holding the Line

Success passes quietly. Failure never does. In the series finale, CISOs reflect on what winning looks like in a job with no clean victories and why someone has to carry that accountability for the rest of us.
Episode 03
Accountability
Future of the CISO
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