29 May 2002 - HoneyNet Reverse Challenge Costs

Costs

The cost analysis is extremely difficult to complete since time was often spent doing several tasks at once. The task was picked up late around the 10th of May 2002. The disassembly process was done on an almost daily basis of between 3 and 4 hours until the 27th.

A further 6 hours was spent writing up the reports (and putting the Analysis document into html).

Assuming a yearly salary of $70,000 ($33.65/Hr):


Hours Cost / Hr. Total Cost -15% +15%
Investigation 66 33.65 2221 1886 2554
Benefits (28%)

622 528 715
Total

2843 2414 3269

Background

I am a recent IT graduate, with no workplace experience. All programming experience has been gained either through university or personal work.

I started working with assembly in 1997, moving into linux/freebsd-based assembly code 3 years ago. During this time, security has been a strong focus, particularly application security.

I have no official experience with system administration, relying on reports done by others in the past for general structure of this analysis report.

My interests in both security and assembly are the driving focus behind the analysis of the binary. (That and a lot of spare time).