frequently there needs to be a paradigm shift ... i.e. building on soft limestone or unstable shale ... rather than having a strong foundation.

i was on a security panel several yrs ago with high-level executives from major after-market security add-on companies and made the analogy to the old after-market seatbelt paradigm ... that the only substantial way of addressing the opportunity is building in integrity into the underlying foundation ... and stop treating it as an after-market add-on
(after-market add-on was better than nothing ... but it wouldn't be very effective at providing coverage for substantial portion of the market).

for a little drift ... also the analogy to the naked transaction/payment paradigm raised here several months ago
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#payments

the current situation might also be compared to medical field where everything is treatment ... and there exist no preventive care & procedures (i.e. having clean water can do wonders for illnesses and death statistics) ... i.e. we are still in the dark ages compareable to bleeding the patient to let out the evil spirits.

At times, I'm even tempted to compare things to a medical treatment scenario where the doctor doesn't even bother to examine the patient ... just chooses a treatment at random.