THE HONEYNET FORENSIC CHALLENGE January/February 2001 Prepared for the HoneyP.edu Incident Response Team (HIRT) by Brian Coyle ----------------------------------------------------------------------- costs.txt Incident cost-estimate To simplify and to normalize the results, assume that your annual salary is $70,000 and that there are no user-related costs. Please also include a brief description of each investigator's number of years of experience in the fields of system administration, programming, and security, just to help us compare the number of hours spent with other entrants. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- About the investigator --------------------- Brian Coyle is an 'Internet Infrastructure Senior Specialist' for an entertainment and media giant in Central Florida. He has over twenty years of progressive Information Services experience, the last five concentrating on Internet and Security specialities. A current resume is available at: http://www.magicnet.net/~brianc/resume.html Incident Cost Analysis ---------------------- Worker's Costs -------------- Title Hours Cost/Hr. Total -15% +15% --------------------- ----- -------- --------- --------- --------- Incident Investigator 48.0 $33.65 $1,615.20 $1,372.92 $1,857.48