QUESTION 24 OF 45

Which do you consider worse, a false negative or a false positive firewall detection?

This is a tricky question because either of these could be related to a serious issue. The interviewer may have an opinion about this, but they are interested in yours. Your answer is of less interest than your ability to rationalize it and explain why you believe it to be true.

This question does not have a right or wrong answer. The key to answering properly is to give a response and be able to defend it if challenged by the interviewer. Interviewers may disagree with your answer but will respect you for being able to justify it.

"in my opinion, a false negative is worse than a false positive. A false negative may cause the information security vulnerability to be ignored, thereby allowing it to negatively impact an organization's IT infrastructure. The false-positive will generate a response meant to resolve the issue, which will result in the false positive being identified."

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Which do you consider worse, a false negative or a false positive firewall detection?

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