Security as a practice can often feel like a perpetual hamster wheel of pain. The 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche gave us his doctrine of the “eternal return”. This was the concept that everything in the universe is recurring and will continue to do so in perpetuity. But, what if we could step off that return? While Nietzsche was dealing with the meaning of existence, we can apply this to information security. We continue to witness recurring failures in the guise of data breaches and the like yet, we seem to accept them as the fabric of reality. Every data breach os static passwords that graces the headlines further compounds the point. We need to take the flat circle of time and put it on it’s edge and learn from our failures in such a way to leverage them and embrace them to change the narrative