Cost-estimate for the reverse challenge effort

by Albert Bendicho (bendi#at#redestb.es). Student at the "honeyp.edu" university.

 

The only cost of this project has been the long hours spent by me on it. It is important to note that I have spent most of the time learning how to do things and having my first experience with most of the utilities and applications I have used (including snort and tripwire).

I estimate that if I had to do another reverse engineering effort it would take me one fourth of the time I spent on this one to reach the same results.

Worker's Costs Table C-40
Title Hours Cost/Hr. Total -15% 15%
Reverse Engineer Student 60 $33,65 $2.019,23 $1.716,35 $2.322,12
Subtotal 60 $2.019,23 $1.716,35 $2.322,12
Benefits @ 28% $565,38 $480,58 $650,19
Subtotal (Salary and Benefits) $2.584,62 $2.196,92 $2.972,31
Indirect Costs $660,10 $561,09 $759,12
Total Labor Cost $3.244,72 $2.758,01 $3.731,42
Median Cost +/- 15%       $3.244,72 $486,71 (+/-)
Year Salary $70.000,00
Weeks/Year 52
Hours worked/Week 40
Cost/Hr. $33,65

Description of candidate;

I have never worked as an administrator, but I have performed a lot of administration-related tasks (30% of my time aprox) for around 3 years. I have worked as a programmer for 7 years (but that ended 6 years ago). And I have been involved on security issues for the last 5 years, but that has taken me less than 10% of my time. My main field of expertise right now is Internet infrastructure, but I would like to see it evolve to Internet security