Christine is reviewing the rights that staff in her organization have to data stored in a group of departmental file shares. She is concerned that rights management practices have not been followed and that employees who have been with the company she works for have not had their privileges removed after they switched jobs. What type of issue has Christine encountered?

Christine is concerned about privilege creep, the slow accumulation of privileges over time as staff members change roles and their privileges are not removed or updated. Privilege management processes would help to prevent this, thus keeping data more secure. Of the other options, only privilege escalation is a common term, and it means gaining additional privileges, typically as part of an attack from an account with fewer privileges to a more privileged account like an administrator or root account.