Network enumerator

Network Scanners and a type of vulnerability scanner scanner as the scan networks for vulnerabilities in the security of that network. if there is a vulnerability in the network, it will send a report back to a hacker who will then exploit that network maliciously. The hacker can then get to security sensitive information or corrupt the network making it useless. If this network belonged to a company which used this netowrk on a regular basis then the company would loose the function to send information internally to other departments.