David is running an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) on his network. Users sometimes report that the IDS flags legitimate traffic as an attack. What describes this?

When an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) or antivirus mistakes legitimate traffic for an attack, this is called a false positive. A false negative is when the IDS mistakes an attack for legitimate traffic. It is the opposite of a false positive. The other options are incorrect. Although these may be grammatically correct, these are not the terms used in the industry. In military operations, false flag operations attempt to transfer blame to another company, thus a “false flag.”