Karl Heinz Reindl wrote:
involved into a discussion about this defintion I would like ask you does anyone know a binding definition?
thanks and
Basically a false positive is a bogus alert and a false negative is an alert which should have been generated but wasn't.
The ITsecurity.COM Dictionary of Information Security (http://www.ITsecurity.com/dictionary/dictionary.htm): [ http://www.itsecurity.com/dictionary/falsep.htm ] False positive A false positive is a term applied to a failure in an alerting system - most commonly in an anti-virus product or intrusion detection system. It occurs when a virus or intrusion condition is incorrectly reported; that is, the alerting systems reports a virus or intrusion condition that does not exist. Too many false positives can be very intrusive. Compare with False negative. this entry last updated: Oct 14, 2002 � Copyright ITsecurity.com, 2002. All rights reserved. ] [ http://www.itsecurity.com/dictionary/falsen.htm ] False negative A false negative is the term applied to a failure in an alerting system - most commonly in an anti-virus product or intrusion detection system. It occurs when a virus or intrusion condition exists, but is 'allowed' (or ignored or missed) by the alerting system. Compare with false positive. this entry last updated: Oct 14, 2002 � Copyright ITsecurity.com, 2002. All rights reserved. ] - H. Morrow Long _______________________________________________ ISSForum mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE OR CHANGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION, go to https://atla-mm1.iss.net/mailman/listinfo
