What's the going rate for counter-intrusion services?

Magicthyse

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new client has a problem - a sneaky little hacker that we've observed. It's probably not a pro since the attempts look as though they're coming from established 'hacking' tools. However we've only seen the tip of the iceberg as far as logs and research goes, so not sure yet.

I've got in a couple of guys who're very experienced in this sort of thing, and I've also some experience in this area. The thing is, my IT company has to date never been called upon to offer these services.

I don't owe the new client any favours and I know that most of the work is time/resource-consuming, eye-straining poring over logs, or checking the results of automated searches. So I'm keen to charge this service out at fair market rates.

So what is a fair rate for a counter-intrusion service if it were to be offered on a contract, per-day basis? Anyone shed any light on this?


I originally posted this in Off Topic. You can read the thread here.

 

mcveigh

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If you have a team of 5-6 guys working on a problem like this it's more like a thousand a day.
I mean 2 lawyers, are they just on retainer or do you have to pay them out of this job.

I'd have different services, like
level1 just harden the server
level2 identifiy the bad cracker
level3 prosecute, get damages and arrange for daily a$$ raping in prison.

I'm sure other are more familiar with this than I am......uh not the a$$ raping I mean;)