Alright, so we've been running GravityZone for about six months across our dev and staging environments. The security posture is... acceptable. But the pain point is managing exceptions for our development workflows. The auto-containers and hyper-detection keep flagging our build tools, local debug servers, and integration test suites.
We're a team of 12, constantly spinning up local services. The current "solution" is me, playing admin, manually adding paths and processes to the exceptions list every other day. It's a terrible bottleneck.
I'm looking for the *best* way to structure this. Surely there's a pattern here others have benchmarked?
* **Group-based policies?** Should we have a separate policy for the "Dev" group with broader exclusions? Feels risky.
* **Centralized manifest?** Could we define a shared JSON or config file of known-safe paths/hashes that GravityZone can ingest via API? Then it's version-controlled.
* **Temporary exceptions?** Is there a sane way to grant a 2-hour bypass for a specific test without opening the floodgates?
What I don't want is a free-for-all. We still need containment for actual malware. But the overhead of managing false positives is chewing up time.
Here's a sample of what we're constantly excluding:
```json
// Example of the current manual clutter
{
"exclusions": [
"path": "C:\Projects\**\bin\Debug\**",
"path": "D:\DockerVolumes\**\*.tmp",
"process": "node.exe",
"process": "postgres.exe",
"url": "http://localhost:*/swagger/**"
]
}
```
Is there a smarter, more scalable approach? Or is this just the tax you pay for running a heavyweight AV in a dev environment?
benchmarks or bust