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We are:
Phil Edelbrock - linux sysadmin at Edge Design with six year's experience. Phil is also cofounder of the lm_sensors project.
Marius Nita - perl programmer at Edge Design with three year's experience.
Ryan Oliver - IT consultant at PHA with nine year's experience and a Vax 11/750 which is mostly paid for.
Rob Fightmaster - project manager at Edge Design with only one year's Linux experience - which is how I got stuck doing the grunt work (html, md5sum, and stamper).
Contributor | Hours | Cost/Hr. | Total | -15% | 15% |
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Edelbrock | 50.0 | $33.65 | $1,682.50 | $1,430.13 | $1,934.88 |
Nita | 5.0 | $33.65 | $168.25 | $143.01 | $193.49 |
Oliver | 5.0 | $33.65 | $168.25 | $143.01 | $193.49 |
Fightmaster | 10.0 | $33.65 | $336.50 | $286.03 | $386.98 |
Subtotal | 70.0 | $2,355.50 | $2,002.18 | $2,708.83 | |
Benefits @ 28% | $659.54 | $560.61 | $758.47 | ||
Total Labor Cost | $3,015.04 | $2,562.78 | $3,467.30 |
Doing a thorough security analysis, complete with a published write-up, is time intensive and expensive. The effort is especially challenging if network security issues comprise less than 10% of your on-the-job efforts (and training). Furthermore, from the perspective of a company with a recently compromised network, a properly documented security advisory looks more like a public service announcement than a valuable internal resource. For these reasons, we believe that many companies choose not to finance this public good. Faced with a compromise, it is easy to focus on fixing the immediate problem and returning to whatever urgent matters were demanding IT resources prior to the compromise. Our experience leads us to believe that many systems administrators are under pressure to execute a fast & cheap fix: restore lost data, restore binaries, patch the offending service (better late than never) and watch netstat regularly for a couple weeks.
In that instance the immediate cost analysis might look more like the table below.
Contributor | Hours | Cost/Hr. | Total | -15% | 15% |
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Edelbrock | 10.0 | $33.65 | $330.65 | $281.05 | $380.25 |
Benefits @ 28% | $423.23 | $359.74 | $486.72 | ||
Total Labor Cost | $423.23 | $359.74 | $486.72 |
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