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The phrase "history repeats itself" has been spoken for centuries in one form or another. George Santayana, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, and many others receive the credit today. But no matter who said it first, what does this mean? Is "history repeats itself" simply an inescapable cause and effect situation? Or maybe it is a data-backed predictive model? In any case, people perceive this as a repetitious pattern so let us explore it through a cybersecurity lens.

A newly established financial services firm was required to create and operate a new GRC program and demonstrate compliance to the NIST 800-53 security framework prior to go-live with its production platform. The financial services firm was establishing its platform in the Cloud and thus was required to demonstrate full compliance with its cloud implementation.

A financial firm’s key resource supporting its third-party risk management program for cybersecurity unexpectedly resigned with little notice. Dealing with a significant volume of cybersecurity reviews, this company could not afford to lose time and fall behind on its reviews due to the resignation.