Could Sony have prevented breach?

Failure to address "insecure" infrastructure may have led to attack on electronics giant, says security expert, who also warns loss of customer data may be "tip of the iceberg" [read more].

When something happen, most people are looking forward to pinpoint someone or something causing the problem/issue. We are likely to search for root cause of it. If we ever find it, we still trying so hard to find someone that we can pointing to.

However, there are very few peoples looking from another angle. An angle of opportunity. There are lots of research area or even solutions based on Sony 'earth-quake'. From security aspect, there are anonymization, privacy, trust, and even data leak prevention or data access protection. The are still gaps in this areas that research although had spent more than decade, yet it still exist for exploration.