Security professionals accept the paradigm of “more protection equals more false positives (FPs)” as a fact of life. The tighter they make the “screws” of the security policies in their DLP, Web or Email Gateways, UEBA, application control/whitelisting and AV tools, the higher the likelihood something benign is misclassified as malicious. That’s why it is not uncommon to see false positive rates exceed 5% using the most aggressive settings.

What if we were thinking about this wrong? Can we break this correlation between more security and more FPs?

During this webinar we will briefly review the definition of false positives, false negatives, true positives and true negatives, as well as the history of “more protection = more FPs” paradigm. Then we will turn the paradigm on its head and discuss how more protection can actually mean fewer FPs.

About the Speaker Nir Gaist, Founder and CTO of Nyotron, is a recognized information security expert and ethical hacker. He started programming at age 6 and began his studies at the Israeli Technion University at age 10. Nir has worked with some of the largest Israeli organizations, such as the Israeli Police, the Israeli parliament and Microsoft’s Israeli headquarters. He also wrote cybersecurity curriculum for the Israel Ministry of Education. Nir holds patents for the creation of a programming language called Behavior Pattern Mapping (BPM) that enables monitoring of the integrity of the operating system behavior to deliver threat-agnostic protection.