Question

Anthony is responsible for tuning his organization's intrusion detection system. He notices that the system reports an intrusion alert each time that an administrator connects to a server using Secure Shell (SSH). What type of error is occurring? T?F

Answer 1

The errror that has occured is a False Positive error.

Explanation:

• A false positive is where you receive a positive result for a test, when you should have received a negative results.
• A false positive (type I error) — when you reject a true null hypothesis.
• The type I error rate or significance level is the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis given that it is true. It is denoted by the Greek letter  alpha