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pain point
 n.— «The biggest pain point, he says, is the false positive issue. Reducing the number of false positives requires users to “tune” the IDS to ignore certain signature patterns that don’t apply to their networks.» —“IDS tools smarten up” by Paul Desmond Network World Sept. 9, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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