False Positive
nounid
2558·updated Aug 28, 2026verified
An alert that incorrectly indicates that malicious activity is occurring.
MWE
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Entity Type
Event85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Sensitivity
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Information Class
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Variants
- synonym
- Type I error (in statistics)
- plural
- False Positives
- possessive
- False Positive's
- pluralpossessive
- False Positives'
Framework definitions
- §1
- An alert that incorrectly indicates that malicious activity is occurring.
- §1
- An alert that incorrectly indicates that malicious activity is occurring.
- §1
- 1. An alert that incorrectly indicates that a vulnerability is present. 2. An alert that incorrectly indicates that malicious activity is occurring. 3. An instance in which a security tool incorrectly classifies benign content as malicious. 4. Incorrectly classifying benign activity as malicious. 5. An erroneous acceptance of the hypothesis that a statistically significant event has been observed. This is also referred to as a type 1 error. This is also referred to as a type 1 error. When “health-testing” the components of a device, it often refers to a declaration that a component has malfunctioned – based on some statistical test(s) – despite the fact that the component was actually working correctly.
- §1
- an outcome where the model incorrectly predicts the positive class.
- §1
- An example in which the model mistakenly classifies an item as in the positive class
- §1
- A false positive is approving an applicant who should be denied
- §1 · legacy_primary
- An alert that incorrectly indicates that malicious activity is occurring.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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