Escalate privileges
Also called: privilege escalation
Course: AP® Cybersecurity Shows up in: Unit 2: Securing Spaces
To reach accounts with more permissions, the goal of the lateral movement phase.
Appears in the course and exam description (CED): 2.1.C.5
Why it matters in Unit 2
Moving to an administrator’s account is lateral movement.
Example
Jumping from a student account to the network admin account.
Learn it properly, with a checkpoint 2.1 Cyber Foundations