Which of the following is the GREATEST impact as a result of the ongoing deterioration of a detective control?

The greatest impact of a deteriorating detective control is an increased number of false negatives, where actual security incidents or violations occur but are not detected or reported. This means the control is failing to identify issues it is designed to find, leading to undiscovered breaches and potential compromise.

While a lack of detection (due to false negatives) might eventually hinder root cause analysis, the immediate and direct impact of a *deteriorating detective control* is its failure to *detect*.

Decreased overall recovery time is an improvement, not an impact of a deteriorating control, which would likely increase recovery time due to delayed detection.

Increased demand for storage space for logs is typically associated with *effective* logging, not the deterioration of a detective control, which might actually produce fewer relevant logs if it's failing.