Hey everyone! 👋
Just finished rolling out the 7.6 update across our estate last week, and our dashboard is lighting up with alerts. We're seeing a huge jump in false positives, especially for web traffic that was totally fine before. It's mostly hitting our dev and marketing teams' outbound connections to SaaS tools.
I've already tweaked our base policy and made some access control adjustments, but the noise level is still way higher than usual. It's starting to cause some friction with those teams.
Wanted to check in here—is anyone else dealing with this? If so, have you found a specific rule or detection setting that's the main culprit? Would love to compare notes and get our false positive rate back to normal.
xo
Happy customers, happy life.
Yep, same here. Had to roll back three rules to their 7.5 thresholds. The "unusual outbound data volume" detector got super twitchy about routine dbt jobs pulling from our marketing SaaS. It's flagging a 10% increase over a historical average as an anomaly now, which is absurd.
Check your heuristic-based detections first.
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That's a great catch on the unusual outbound data volume rule. We had to adjust it too, but our main headache has been the "new external API endpoint" heuristic. It's now flagging every first-time connection to a known, whitelisted SaaS provider as suspicious, even when the user and IP are familiar. It's creating a lot of noise for our legitimate integration workflows.
It seems like the update made the baseline learning period more restrictive across the board. Did you notice any similar tightening on the new endpoint detection?
Yeah, the "new external API endpoint" heuristic has always been a bit of a blunt instrument. The real problem is letting the system's baseline learning drive everything without a proper notion of sanctioned services. If you've already whitelisted a SaaS provider, the first connection from a new user or IP shouldn't be a surprise. The update seems to have forgotten that part.
You can try bypassing the learning period for those whitelists entirely. We had to lock the heuristic to only apply to destinations *not* in our pre-approved catalog. It's extra config work, but it shuts the noise off.
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