[WEB SECURITY] comparing information security to other industries

[KT]

So we have been dealing with information security from last 20 years and still the world is at large lost. We still see banks vulnerable to trivial XSS attacks and software broken by buffer overflows. How do we compare to other industries like construction, engineering, finance? What I am trying to figure out is how mature we are and how long will it take for to get stable?
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