Does your incident response process account for known false positives when determining incident classification and response criteria?

This question assesses whether your organization has mechanisms to identify and manage false positive alerts within your security monitoring systems. False positives can consume valuable resources and create alert fatigue if not properly managed. Effective incident response processes should include criteria that help distinguish genuine security incidents from false alarms based on historical data and known system behaviors. Evidence could include documentation of your incident classification framework that specifically addresses false positive handling, historical data showing false positive rates and adjustments made, or runbooks that include steps for validating alerts before escalation.