Running ModSecurity with the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rules is hard. A huge wave of false positives drowns sysadmins and logfile servers alike. The upcoming 3.0.0 release of the Core Rules comes with a new paranoia mode. This feature organises the various rules in different paranoia levels. The higher the paranoia level, the more paranoid the rules and the more false positives you will get. However, the default installation gives you a decent security level without too many false positives. This allows for a straight forward ModSecurity setup which is not threatening an existing productive service. Instead you start with a limited set of rules and then you raise the paranoia level step by step to the number that suits the desired security level of your site. In this talk, we will look at the configuration of the paranoia mode. We will look at rules and we will look at ModSecurity defending against popular attack kits at various paranoia levels