I spent 75 hours analysing the-binary, creating tools and writing this report. The standard annual wage of $70,000 comes to $33.65 per hour. I have allowed one day for the system to be reinstalled with a network scan for other affected hosts is conducted and coordination of the removal of the-binary from other infected hosts.
| Title | Hours | Cost/Hr | Total | -15% | +15% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incident Investigator | 75 | $33.65 | $2523.75 | $2902.31 | $2145.17 |
| Staff | 8 | $33.65 | $269.20 | $309.58 | $228.82 |
| Benefits @ 28% | $782.02 | $899.32 | $676.02 | ||
| Total Labour costs | $3574.95 | $4111.21 | $3090.39 | ||
| Median costs +- 15% | $3574.95 | +-15% | |||
Programming experience: 6 years
Systems Administration: 3 years
Security: ~1 year
I began programming around 1993, and started a Computer Systems Engineering degree at the University of South Australia in 1996. After changing to a Computer Science degree I finished my Bachelor at the end of 2001.
During my University course I worked part time at the University of South Australia as a Unix systems administrator, and also did some contract systems administration for various companies.
Around 1998 I took up a contract as part of a team doing programming for a wool bale processing machine in C++. I eventually began working for one of the other people involved in the project, as they owned a company named Tellurian.
Tellurian work on cool software for a variety of platforms, including Unix, MacOS and Windows. I worked at Tellurian as a programmer until near the end of 2001, when I started work at Adelaide University.
I currently work at Adelaide University as a Unix Systems Administrator, managing large and small systems running Solaris, Linux, and various other flavours of Unix.