The Perils of False Positives

**Executive summary:** This article argues that false positives in threat hunting can be as damaging as false negatives, describing their operational impacts (alert fatigue, wasted time, erosion of trust, and poor decision-making), common causes (overly aggressive signatures, lack of context-aware analysis, and stale intelligence), and recommending the use of fresh, complete, context-aware internet intelligence to reduce false positives.