Which would be worse, false positive or False negative in case of detection ?

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Posted On: Feb 22, 2018

 

False positive means a detection of a packet that actually isn't malicious. But false negative is something that passes from Firewall and becomes an incident. False positive can be rectified by changing rule-set and manual testing. But false negative could cause compromise of an entire system. Thus, false negative is far dangerous than false positive detection by a firewall or an anti-virus software.

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