The Tricky Balance in Declining or Accepting Online Payments

False positives are one of the biggest problems for security controls. In malware detection they interrupt work and divert incident response away from real issues. But in ecommerce and financial fraud detection, false positives can have a direct and serious effect on profitability. In most cases, it is a balance between high detection (more secure but with more false positives), and lower detection (less secure with fewer false positives).