Which of the following is used to describe a situation where an alert is sent to an administrator when an event is mistakenly recognized as malicious?
- True negative
- True positive
- False negative
- False positive
The correct answer is 4.
When an alarm or alert occurs, that is a positive. When a positive occurs, or when an alarm or alert occurs, but should not have, such as with a benign event, a false positive has taken place. A false positive is when a benign event is miscategorized by a detector as a malicious event.
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