Re: Re: Penetration Testing work effort

I agree, that it depends on the skills of the tester. But say If a co. 
approaches u and says that they want to carry out Security Audit for Network 
devices, applications then how to calculate how much time would be required to 
do a test on a single network device and an application. Point to be remembered 
here is that it would be a black box. This is like repsonding to the proposal 
and giving them the estimation. Say the network devices are 50 which comprise 
of 10 routers, 10 F/w and 30 switches and 1 huge application which is a online 
trading application. then how to calculate the man effort per device. what 
would be the duration that should be specified to the client. This is just an 
example.

I am trying to find out if anybody has developed such costing and time 
estimation model that can be given to the client before the project start (this 
would be in bid phase)

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