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Most Cybersecurity Tools Are Solving the Wrong Problem (opens in new tab)

In one published case study of an industrial intrusion detection deployment, the system flagged more than 27,000 events as potentially malicious in a single observation window. Of those, 76 turned out to be real threats. The remaining 26,924 were noise. The false positive rate was 99.7 percent. That number is not an outlier. It is the part of modern cybersecurity that almost no vendor will put in a sales deck, because the entire industry is built on telling customers they need to see more, no...

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