was the new "everything guy" at a small logistics firm. On his third day, the entire monitoring system went dark. The proprietary software they used to track 400 delivery vans had frozen, and the senior admin—the only person who knew the password—was currently trekking through a remote part of the Andes with zero cell service.

Even legitimate-looking files can be dangerous. Use this workflow:

: It uses various protocols like SNMP, WMI, and packet sniffing to collect statistics from switches, routers, and servers.