# Dealing with False Positives

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dealing-with-false-positives/292941>\
**Category:** Elastic Security\
**Tags:** detection-rules\
**Created:** [December 26, 2021, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dealing-with-false-positives/292941 "2021-12-26T18:11:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![nemhods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/48db29/32.png) [@nemhods](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nemhods)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dealing-with-false-positives/292941/1 "2021-12-26T18:11:32Z")

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Hey,

I've discovered a false positive in the rule _Suspicious JAVA Child Process_ (which is quite scary at this time of the year...) with the meeting-software Jitsi that should affect some other people. Is there currently a way to report false positives to the detection engineering team, and how would Elastic currently implement them? e.g. through pre-populated exceptions for rules?

The issue type " Tune existing rule" on [Github](https://github.com/elastic/detection-rules/issues/new/choose) explicitly states: "Suggestion for **logic changes** to an existing rule". To me this sounds like you're currently not looking for individual false positive reports?

The gist of it: the Jitsi Video Bridge (JVB) component [spawns bash commands at startup](https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-videobridge/blob/28cdd301b610650fb8c532dca762d1eb1f24a225/jvb/src/main/java/org/jitsi/videobridge/util/UlimitCheck.java#L89). This is picked up by detection engine as follows:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/1/e1529b7a9ac9efbad508a95a8b0e3a38f1d0a4a0.png)

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**Author:** ![ferullo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ferullo/32/74240_2.png) [@ferullo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ferullo)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dealing-with-false-positives/292941/2 "2021-12-29T13:50:59Z")

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Hi @nemhods . Guidance on how to submit false positive reports is available [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/submitting-false-positives/232322)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dealing-with-false-positives/292941/3 "2022-01-26T13:51:40Z")

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