RE: Wireless Audit Cost

[lbrooks () cs fsu edu]

Thank you for the input so far. It has been helpful. 

I had to go back and ask the prof for exactly what he was looking for. He is 
trying to get a feel for what would be a good ball park budget for a complete 
analysis from a private company to put in as a recommendation in the paper he 
is writing. (Someone in another post asked if I could post the study. 
Unfortunately, the paper is meant for publication so I cant. But should it get 
published I will be happy to pass along the name of the publication.) 

Here is the scenario that he and I came up with. The company is a medium sized 
company with three buildings and a large mobile sales force using wireless 
laptops. There are ten wireless points located on the internal LAN throughout 
the three buildings. The wired 
network has the usual security measures in place, i.e. firewall blocking 
incoming traffic but not outgoing, servers located in a DMZ (say an http 
server, mail server and dns all Win2K based), no IDS etc, all Cisco hardware. 
No security other than mac filtering on the wireless LAN. What we would be 
looking for is the estimated cost to do a full assessment of the 
vulnerabilities from the, admittedly completely insecure, wireless network to 
the main network and develop a wireless security plan for the organization. 

We understand that every network is different. We are just trying to get a 
ball 
park figure for what companies can expect when they go looking for this type 
of service. If that is not detailed enough please let me know and I will try 
to firm it up some more. 

Thank you,

Louis Brooks
Dept. of Computer Science
Florida State University


Quoting "Robert E. Lee" <robert () dyadsecurity com>:

> Your post looks like a RFQ (Request for Quote). :).  The details you
> provided are too scarce to answer fully.  Are you looking for costs of
> software, costs of training for your people... or costs to outsource a
> wireless security project to a third party?
>
> If it's the latter, there are many security companies (including mine)
> that would be willing to help you price out a project like this.  This
> sort of pricing/scooping phase is a "standard cost of doing business"
> for us.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Robert
>
> Robert E. Lee
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>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lbrooks () cs fsu edu [mailto:lbrooks () cs fsu edu]
> > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 8:01 AM
> > To: pen-test () securityfocus com
> > Subject: Wireless Audit Cost
> >
> > Hello List Members:
> >
> > I work for the Security Group at Florida State University's Department
> of
> > Computer Science. We are putting together some documentation for a
> study
> > on
> > best practices in wireless security. One of the last bits of
> information
> > we
> > need to collect for the study is the monetary costs associated with
> > auditing a
> > wireless network. I was hoping that some of the members on this list
> would
> > be
> > willing to help us out with gathering the information. We are looking
> at
> > the
> > projected costs associated with auditing a wireless campus with 10
> access
> > points for the study. If you have any information or can point me in
> the
> > right
> > direction to finding this information I would be most appreciative.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Louis Brooks
> > Dept. of Computer Science
> > Florida State University
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