Summary

As stated earlier in this chapter, anomaly detection can be a very challenging activity for any organization. As with the story of “The boy who cried wolf,” when too many false positives occur, it can impact our decision-making. If we become complacent with our responses, it can cause tremendous issues in the way of costs and safety. With this in mind, it is recommended to ensure a deep analysis of pros and cons is performed for the example you want to test the service with. However, as we have displayed throughout this chapter, there are many of these considerations that have been taken into account for the service, and many options are available to hopefully avoid an abundance of false positives. Alternatively, there are certainly many advantages to having a finely tuned anomaly detection service in place that can help augment human monitoring of specified conditions. We have our typical return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis,...