# What does a false-positive bound mean for a small IT team?

It is a statement that, among the alerts the tool surfaces, the share of false alarms stays below a stated level, at a stated confidence, measured on your own network. For a small team it answers the practical question: how much of my alert time will be wasted? NetSenX derives such a bound with a split-conformal method from benign traffic your team has labelled in your own tenant. The catch is honest: a bound is only as good as the data behind it. With few labelled alerts, the method cannot support a tight bound, so the dashboard says that no bound is supported yet and what would close the gap, instead of showing a reassuring number. As you mark alerts over the first weeks and months, the bound becomes possible. It is a property of your data, not a fixed rate NetSenX promises, and it is included on every plan as part of the NetSenX Math Guarantee.

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