False Negative
nounid
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1. An instance in which a security tool intended to detect a particular threat fails to do so. 2. Incorrectly classifying malicious activity as benign.
MWE
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Entity Type
Metric82%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- Type II error (in statistics)
- plural
- False Negatives
- possessive
- False Negative's
- pluralpossessive
- False Negatives'
Framework definitions
- §1
- 1. An instance in which a security tool intended to detect a particular threat fails to do so. 2. Incorrectly classifying malicious activity as benign.
- §1
- an outcome where the model incorrectly predicts the negative class.
- §1
- An example in which the predictive model mistakenly classifies an item as in the negative class.
- §1
- A false negative is denying an applicant who should be approved
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