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My name is Michela, and I’ve quite recently and gradually begun participating in the CRS project – a group of very sharp and incredibly welcoming people, who …

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False Negatives, False Positives – How the CRS team decide when to add or modify rules, and when we decide not to add them

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My name is Michela, and I’ve quite recently and gradually begun participating in the CRS project – a group of very sharp and incredibly welcoming people, who work to make the Internet safer. Needless to say, it’s been very interesting, and fun, so far! As part of my onboarding, so to speak, I’ve been reading lots of documentation on how the project is run, official rule syntax and formatting guidelines, collaborations with other teams like those of ModSecurity and Coraza, and of course, how decisions are made about rule-making.

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My name is Michela, and I’ve quite recently and gradually begun participating in the CRS project – a group of very sharp and incredibly welcoming people, who work to make the Internet safer. Needless to say, it’s been very interesting, and fun, so far! As part of my onboarding, so to speak, I’ve been reading lots of documentation on how the project is run, official rule syntax and formatting guidelines, collaborations with other teams like those of ModSecurity and Coraza, and of course, how decisions are made about rule-making.

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