Moving laterally within a network once an initial exploit is used to gain persistent access for the purpose of establishing further control of a system is known as:

The right answer is Pivoting.

Explanation:

Penetration testers use pivoting as a technique to attack other systems having gained a foothold in one process within the same network. This allows them to circumnavigate firewall configurations, which may constitute restrictions and prohibit direct access to all other machines.

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