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The Fundamental Theory<\/h1>\nPalo Alto is a next-generation firewall. This means that it uses more advanced techniques to detect threats compared to a traditional firewall. Where a more traditional firewall would inspect source and destination IP addresses and ports, a next generation firewall would detect an application, user, or piece of content. From there we can choose to either allow, block, drop or reset the connection.\n

Chapter Navigation<\/h2>\nEvery lab will contain a learning outcome section on the top. Here is an example:\n
\n

Learning Objectives<\/p>\n\n<\/header>\n

\n
    \n \t
  • Learn how to navigate this book<\/li>\n \t
  • Open up GNS3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese will contain what the current lab is trying to teach.\n\nA topology of how the lab will look like, will be displayed after the learning outcomes. Here is an example:\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_21\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\"]\"Example Figure E.1: An example scenario[\/caption]\n

    A Practical Introduction<\/h2>\nWhat this book aims to accomplish is a practical understanding of the usage and functionality of Palo Alto firewalls. Learn by doing will be a strong driving force in the coming labs and examples in this book, and I encourage you to try and extend these labs and have fun with them.","rendered":"

    The Fundamental Theory<\/h1>\n

    Palo Alto is a next-generation firewall. This means that it uses more advanced techniques to detect threats compared to a traditional firewall. Where a more traditional firewall would inspect source and destination IP addresses and ports, a next generation firewall would detect an application, user, or piece of content. From there we can choose to either allow, block, drop or reset the connection.<\/p>\n

    Chapter Navigation<\/h2>\n

    Every lab will contain a learning outcome section on the top. Here is an example:<\/p>\n

    \n
    \n

    Learning Objectives<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

    \n
      \n
    • Learn how to navigate this book<\/li>\n
    • Open up GNS3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

      These will contain what the current lab is trying to teach.<\/p>\n

      A topology of how the lab will look like, will be displayed after the learning outcomes. Here is an example:<\/p>\n

      \"Example
      Figure E.1: An example scenario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

      A Practical Introduction<\/h2>\n

      What this book aims to accomplish is a practical understanding of the usage and functionality of Palo Alto firewalls. Learn by doing will be a strong driving force in the coming labs and examples in this book, and I encourage you to try and extend these labs and have fun with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"front-matter-type":[13],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-22","front-matter","type-front-matter","status-publish","hentry","front-matter-type-introduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/paloalto\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/paloalto\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/paloalto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/front-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/paloalto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/paloalto\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/22\/revisions"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/paloalto\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/22\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/paloalto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/paloalto\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter-type?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/paloalto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/paloalto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}