# Alert Management Guiding Principles ## Sensitive **data cannot live in any of these applications and must be remediated** As a best practice, any alerts that contain real, sensitive data should be remediated as soon as possible. This will minimize your security risk and will help set the tone for your DLP strategy moving forward. It is also encouraged to [annotate findings](https://help.nightfall.ai/nightfall-ai/dashboards_violations/nightfall-violations#annotating-findings) within the violation for easy reference, efficient collaboration and detector model improvements. ## **No action is needed on sample data, test data, or data used in instructions or guides ("expected data")** To lessen the load of which alerts need to be remediated, a best practice is to not take action on sample data or test data. Instead you can [annotate](https://help.nightfall.ai/nightfall-ai/dashboards_violations/nightfall-violations#annotating-findings) such data as false positives for easy reference and model improvements. Remediation should only be a focus for sensitive data that is found through the alerts. ## **Acknowledge an alert, when reviewed, to avoid duplication of efforts** If you already are reviewing an alert, it should be acknowledged to avoid duplicate efforts. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://help.nightfall.ai/operationalizing_nightfall_dlp/alert_guiding_principles.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.