Actionist·AlienVault
AlienVault

AlienVault

· #303 most-used

Unified threat detection, intelligence, and response — automated

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AlienVault — now part of AT&T Cybersecurity as LevelBlue — is the Unified Security Management (USM) platform that combines SIEM, intrusion detection, vulnerability assessment, asset discovery, and the Open Threat Exchange (OTX) threat-intelligence community. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can retrieve and enrich alarms, poll event streams, cross-reference indicators against OTX pulses, sync IOC feeds into internal registers, monitor asset inventory changes, and compile audit-ready compliance evidence — all without analysts leaving their primary tools.

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Average time saved
14 hours
per person · per month
≈ 2 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate manual alarm enrichment, OTX lookups, vulnerability triage, asset inventory cross-checks, and compliance evidence exports that security and operations teams otherwise do by hand every week.

Schedule

What your AlienVault agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

28Scheduled jobs
7Agents at work
24/7Always on
Agents
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Multi-app workflows

AlienVault × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
7Apps spanned
~25 hrsSaved / week
5Personas served
For security ops
Featured3 apps

Alarm-to-Jira incident ticket with OTX enrichment

When a new critical or high alarm fires in USM Anywhere, the agent enriches it with OTX intelligence, labels it appropriately in the alarm console, creates a Jira incident ticket with the full enriched context, and notifies the SOC team in Slack — all within about a minute of the alarm appearing. Analysts open Jira to a pre-enriched ticket rather than starting a manual OTX lookup from scratch.

~8 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When the Operations Agent detects a new critical or high alarm in USM Anywhere
Trigger
Step 1
AlienVault
Poll Get Alarms for new critical/high alarms since last run
read
Step 2
AlienVault
Get Alarm — retrieve full alarm details for each new finding
read
Step 3
AlienVault
Get Indicator Intelligence — check alarm source IP against OTX
write
Step 4
AlienVault
Add Label — tag alarm with 'confirmed-threat' or 'unconfirmed'
write
Step 5
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Jira
Create incident ticket with enriched alarm summary
write
Step 6
Slack
Post alert to #security-ops with Jira ticket link
Result
Add Label — tag alarm with 'confirmed-threat' or 'unconfirmed'Create incident ticket with enriched alarm summaryPost alert to #security-ops with Jira ticket link
The win
Saved per run
20 min
Runs / week
~25×
Every critical alarm arrives at the analyst pre-enriched with OTX intelligence
Driven byOperations Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    45 min / week
    Manual security questionnaire data gathering

    The account executive emails the security team, waits for a response, manually extracts figures from dashboard screenshots, and reformats them for the questionnaire — a process that can take a full business day.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent compiles verified security-posture data on demand

    When a prospect sends a security questionnaire, the agent pulls 30-day alarm counts, open vulnerability counts, and monitored asset inventory from USM Anywhere and compiles a questionnaire-ready summary in under 5 minutes.

  • Marketing
    90 min / week
    Manual OTX threat-intelligence research for content

    Content writers manually browse the OTX dashboard, copy out pulse summaries, and translate technical IOC data into readable content — taking 2-3 hours per piece.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent drafts threat-trend content from live OTX data

    The Marketing Agent retrieves new OTX subscribed pulses each Monday and drafts a threat-trend digest backed by real IOC data — content that's credible and current without secondary sources.

  • Customer Support
    30 min / week
    Reactive alarm monitoring for customer-facing infrastructure

    Support engineers only learn of infrastructure alarms when customers open tickets — manual console checks are ad-hoc and infrequent, leaving detection gaps.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent surfaces customer-facing alarms before customers report

    The Support Agent polls USM Anywhere for alarms on customer-facing assets hourly and enriches them with OTX intelligence — creating Jira tickets before customers notice impact.

  • Human Resources
    20 min / week
    Manual post-offboarding access review

    HR or IT manually checks whether offboarded employees still have access, typically days or weeks after offboarding — by which time any misuse has already occurred.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent flags post-exit access within about a minute of detection

    When an offboarding completes, the agent immediately queries USM Anywhere for authentication events on the former employee's assets — flagging any anomaly before it becomes an incident.

  • Finance
    60 min / week
    Manual quarterly audit evidence collection

    Finance manually exports alarm and event logs from USM Anywhere at quarter-end, reformats them for the compliance workbook, and chases the security team for missing date ranges.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent delivers audit-ready evidence without manual exports

    The Finance Agent appends weekly alarm and event counts to a compliance workbook throughout the quarter — by audit time the workbook is already complete with no manual data exports required.

  • Operations
    120 min / week
    Manual alarm triage and OTX lookups

    SOC analysts open each raw alarm in USM Anywhere, manually look up the source IP or file hash in OTX, add notes to the alarm, and route it to the right team — 10-15 minutes per alarm.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent enriches every alarm with OTX intelligence before analyst review

    The Operations Agent retrieves new alarms, fetches OTX indicator intelligence for each source IP or hash, and labels the alarm with the result — analysts receive pre-enriched alarms, not raw alerts.

  • Legal
    45 min / week
    Manual incident evidence assembly for legal review

    Legal requests alarm and event records from the security team, waits for a manual export, assembles the evidence in a document, and fills gaps by requesting additional USM Anywhere screenshots.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent compiles incident evidence packages before counsel asks

    When an alarm is escalated to legal, the agent retrieves alarm records, correlated events, and OTX threat context and compiles a Notion evidence document — counsel has a complete record ready within about a minute.

+ 100s of other AlienVault automations
Average time saved
41 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
5 people
Hourly rate
$75 / hr
Hours saved / week
18
Hours saved / year
875
Annual ROI
$65,625

Based on AlienVault's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~3.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug AlienVault into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

Connect with your USM Anywhere API Client credentials (Client ID + Client Secret). Actionist uses these to obtain an OAuth 2.0 bearer token and makes all API calls on your behalf. For OTX-only use, paste your OTX API key into the Client ID field.

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Create an API Client in USM Anywhere

Log in to USM Anywhere, open Settings → API Clients, and click Create Client. Give the client a descriptive name (e.g. 'Actionist') and select the appropriate permission scopes — read for monitoring, read + write for alarm labelling and management.

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Copy Client ID and Secret

Copy the Client ID and Client Secret from the confirmation screen. Store the Client Secret securely — you cannot retrieve it again after closing the dialog.

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Paste into Actionist and test

Paste the Client ID and Client Secret into the fields below and click Test connection. Actionist exchanges your credentials for an OAuth 2.0 bearer token and runs a test GET /alarms call to confirm access.

Credentials you'll need
Client ID*
USM Anywhere: Settings → API Clients → Create Client — copy the Client ID
Client Secret*
USM Anywhere: Settings → API Clients → Create Client — copy the Client Secret
Actions

15 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

0 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

This app has no triggers yet.
FAQs

Questions about AlienVault + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to AlienVault?
Go to the Apps tab, find AlienVault, and click Connect. The recommended path is an API key — Actionist prompts you to enter your USM Anywhere client ID and client secret (available under Settings → API Clients in your USM Anywhere console). The agent exchanges these credentials for an OAuth 2.0 bearer token and runs a test GET /alarms call to confirm the connection before any actions execute. If you are connecting to the OTX Open Threat Exchange instead, paste your OTX API key from your OTX account settings.
What permissions does the agent need in my AlienVault account?
For USM Anywhere the agent needs an API client with the appropriate scopes set up in USM Anywhere under Settings → API Clients. Read-heavy operations (Get Alarms, Get Events, Get Assets, Get Vulnerabilities) only require read permissions; write operations (Add Label, Update Alarm Status, Create Ticket) require write scopes as well. For OTX, the API key inherits the permissions of your OTX account — a standard account can read public pulses and your subscriptions, and create your own pulses. The USM Anywhere API enforces rate limits of 100 GET and 50 POST requests per second per subdomain.
Can I connect AlienVault to other apps in the same agent task?
Yes. AlienVault is most powerful when combined with the tools your security and operations teams already use. Common combinations: push USM Anywhere alarms into a Jira or ServiceNow ticket automatically; enrich a new alarm with OTX threat-intelligence pulse data before routing it; send high-severity alarm notifications to a Slack channel; write alarm and event summaries to Google Sheets for weekly reporting; or trigger a PagerDuty incident when a critical alarm fires. Any of Actionist's 200+ connected apps can send or receive context alongside AlienVault data in the same agent task.
What are the most common things agents do with AlienVault?
The four patterns that come up most often: (1) alarm triage — the agent retrieves new high-severity alarms, enriches each with OTX intelligence, and routes confirmed threats to the right owner; (2) daily security digest — pulling alarm and event counts from the previous 24 hours and posting a summary to Slack before the morning standup; (3) threat-intelligence sync — fetching new OTX pulses that match your industry and updating an internal IOC register in Notion or Google Sheets; (4) asset inventory review — listing assets by label or sensor and flagging any assets that appeared since the last weekly scan.
Can the agent access historical alarms and logs from cold storage?
USM Anywhere's API exposes alarm and event data stored in the live (warm) system. Raw logs in cold storage are not accessible via API calls. This means the agent can query alarms and events from the current retention window but cannot reach archived cold-storage logs. For historical analysis beyond the warm window, export your logs to a SIEM aggregator or cloud storage before they age out, then query there. OTX data has no cold-storage limitation — all pulses and indicators you have subscribed to are permanently accessible through the DirectConnect API.
How does Actionist detect new alarms — does it use webhooks?
AlienVault USM Anywhere does not expose a native outbound webhook for alarm events, so Actionist uses a scheduled polling pattern: the agent runs on a configurable cadence (e.g., every few minutes or hourly) and calls GET /alarms with a filter for alarms newer than the last-seen timestamp. When new alarms are found the agent fires its downstream steps. This is not instantaneous — new alarms appear in Actionist within about a minute of the scheduled poll. If you need sub-minute detection, keep USM Anywhere's own built-in notification rules active in parallel.
Can the agent pull fresh threat-intelligence IOCs from OTX into our internal systems automatically?
Yes. The OTX DirectConnect API lets the agent pull all pulses you have subscribed to since a given timestamp, so the agent can run on a daily or hourly schedule, fetch only new or updated pulses, extract the IOC indicators (IP addresses, domains, file hashes, CVEs, URLs), and write them to a Google Sheets IOC register or push them into your existing security tooling. This keeps your internal threat register current without manual OTX dashboard visits.
What are AlienVault alarm labels and how can the agent use them?
Labels in USM Anywhere are free-text tags you can attach to alarms for classification and filtering. The agent can add a label to any alarm using the Add Label action — useful for marking an alarm as 'reviewed', 'escalated', 'false-positive', or tagging it with a ticket number after the downstream Jira ticket is created. Labels are retrievable with Get Labels and removable with Delete Label, so the agent can maintain a clean, consistent alarm-state taxonomy without anyone manually editing alarms in the USM Anywhere console.