Why is understanding the protocol "Simple Network Management Protocol" important for security professionals?

What will be an ideal response?

The SNMP service can run on both Windows and *nix, but for this section, we will focus on *nix. SNMP is useful for administrators who want to see system statistics, version numbers, and other detailed host information remotely. For this reason, it is also useful for hackers. By default, the SNMP service uses "public" as a credential for read-only access and "private" for read-write access.