Best practices for managing false positives - Port Swigger
Summary: PortSwigger's guidance on managing false positives notes that all automated scanners can flag issues as vulnerabilities that pose no actual risk. It recommends a workflow that starts with reviewing confidence ratings, understanding the issue type and context, and validating issues through manual testing before recording decisions in Burp Suite DAST.
Bottom line: Every false positive a scanner reports consumes review time that could go to a genuine threat, and the recommended workflow depends on manual testing to separate the two.
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