What is worse in Firewall Detection, a false negative or a false positive? And why?

Answer Posted / chaitanya

Far and away is a false negative. A false positive is annoying, but easily dealt with – calling a legitimate piece of traffic bad. A false negative however is a piece of malicious traffic being let through without incident – definitely bad.

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