# Intrusion prevention **URL:** \ **Category:** Zeek\ **Created:** [August 26, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/intrusion-prevention/848 "2005-08-26T22:23:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vern](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/community.zeek.org/vern/32/630_2.png) [@Vern](https://community.zeek.org/u/Vern)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/intrusion-prevention/848/1 "2005-08-26T22:23:05Z")
> Will it be interfacing with a firewall like iptables (like snort-inline does) ? It's a different API, and not directly suitable for use with something like iptables (our approach is quite fine-grained). Note, we already (and for a long time) run Bro in a reactive fashion, for which the policy script can drop hostile traffic. But this isn't the full power of an IPS since there's latency between discovering a problem and blocking a host, so damage can still occur.     Vern ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/intrusion-prevention/848/2 "2022-05-06T15:37:39Z")