I’ve spent my career telling stories. The kind that stick with you. The kind that reveal something deeper when the room goes quiet. But I’ve never felt a room crackle with quiet intensity the way it did at Black Hat last year.
A closed-door event. No press. No cameras. Just CISOs.
They weren’t talking about dashboards, budgets, or breaches. They were talking about what it feels like to be the one person everyone turns to when something goes wrong. What it feels like to be the last line of defense and the first to take the fall.
They talked about waking up to alerts at 2AM and wondering if this would be “the one”. About missing birthdays and milestones because the risk didn’t pause for life. About carrying fear like it was part of the job description.
We’ve built an industry that depends on CISOs, but we’ve done almost nothing to protect them.
Nagomi’s business is built around helping CISOs make security effective. Hacker Valley Media has built a platform amplifying the voices of CISOs. We all rely on the CISO….. but no one’s been asking if the person behind the role can survive it.
We’ve created a system that rewards silence. That praises resilience while ignoring the cost. We hold up the title “CISO” as a badge of honor—but never ask what it takes to wear it.
So I did what storytellers do. I asked them to keep talking.
CISO: The Worst Job I Ever Wanted will be the first full-scale cybersecurity docuseries in history all about what it really means to lead cybersecurity in today’s world.
We partnered with the brilliant minds at Hacker Valley Media to create something more than content – something unfiltered, unscripted, and long overdue. It’s not a brand campaign. It’s not a highlight reel. It’s the kind of honesty that usually stays behind closed doors.
You’ll hear from the CISOs who’ve carried the weight of protecting their organizations – and paid the price for it. The pressure they live with. The pride they feel. The moments that broke them. And the ones that made them stay. But this isn’t just about awareness. It’s about action.
We’re supporting the Professional Association of CISOs (PAC) to take this all the way to Capitol Hill. To demand recognition, protection, and policy for the people behind the firewall. Because if we don’t start supporting the people who protect us, we’re going to keep losing them – to burnout, to blame, to silence.
At Nagomi, we exist to make security work — not just technically, but humanly. This series is an extension of that mission: to make the invisible load visible, and to drive change that actually matters.
This series is for the CISOs who stay up when the rest of us sleep. For the teams who see what they carry. For the companies that still treat cybersecurity like someone else’s problem. And for the next generation, the ones walking into this role with purpose, grit, and no illusions.
Watch the teaser.
Feel what they’ve been carrying. And ask yourself: If this is the job, who’s protecting the protector?
Join the movement.
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