Blake has been examining the logs on one of the servers that he is responsible for that is hosted on a cloud service provider. He finds an instance where one of the employees has managed to give himself unauthorized administrative access on the server. Which of the following has occurred?
A) Internal role change
B) Federation
C) Privilege escalation
D) SSO

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Privilege escalation occurs when someone gains unauthorized access or permissions beyond their intended level, in this case, administrative access on the server.

Blake Has Been Examining the Logs on One of the Servers