What is the impact of false negative alerts when compared to true negative alerts?

In cybersecurity, a false negative is a critical failure where an actual malicious event, like an attempted hack, occurs but the security system fails to detect it and raise an alert, leaving the organization vulnerable. Conversely, a true negative correctly identifies a legitimate, non-malicious event as safe and does not generate an alert, indicating the system is functioning as intended by not flagging benign activity.

This statement incorrectly defines a true negative as an alert for an exploit when no attack was detected (which is a false positive) and then the rest of the sentence is cut off.

A true negative is an absence of an alert for legitimate, non-malicious activity, not an alert for a legitimate attack (which would be a true positive).

A false negative is when an attack happens but no alert is raised, while this statement describes a false positive (alert for attack when none is happening).