Carbon Black
· #416 most-usedDetect, investigate, and respond to endpoint threats — automatically
Carbon Black (now Broadcom Carbon Black Cloud) is an enterprise endpoint security platform that delivers next-generation antivirus, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and threat hunting capabilities through a cloud-native agent. It continuously monitors process execution, file activity, and network connections across every managed endpoint — generating alerts when behaviour matches threat patterns or policy violations. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can search and triage alerts, enrich incidents with full device and process context, quarantine compromised endpoints within about a minute of detection, hunt for IOC matches across the fleet, and build a continuous compliance evidence store from audit logs — all without an analyst touching the Carbon Black console.
Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate manual alert triage, console-based device lookups, copy-paste incident ticketing, and weekly audit log export cycles that together consume hours of analyst and compliance time each week.
What your Carbon Black agent runs on autopilot
A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.
Carbon Black × every other app you use
End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.
Critical alert contained and ticketed within a minute
When a Critical Carbon Black alert is detected, the agent retrieves full alert and device context, immediately quarantines the endpoint, posts a containment notice to the incident response channel, and creates a richly populated P1 ticket in Jira — all within about a minute of detection, before the on-call analyst picks up their phone.
Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot
Savings
What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Sales20 min / weekManual security posture prep for prospect calls
Account managers manually log into the CB console before each renewal or expansion call to pull device counts and alert summaries, spending 15 minutes per account.
Sales Agent0 minAgent pulls device and alert data automatically before callsThe agent retrieves Carbon Black device coverage and alert counts for prospect accounts and writes the security posture summary to HubSpot before Monday morning calls — no manual console login.
- Marketing15 min / weekManual alert data export for content research
The marketing team manually exports Carbon Black alert summaries from the console, reformats the data in a spreadsheet, and shares it with content writers each month.
Marketing Agent0 minAgent pulls threat trend data for content on scheduleEvery Tuesday the agent retrieves Carbon Black alert volume and severity distribution and writes the threat landscape data to the content team's research document — no manual data export.
- Customer Support40 min / weekManual alert-to-ticket creation
Analysts manually check the Carbon Black alert queue, copy relevant details into the ticketing system, and look up device information separately — 10 minutes per alert.
Customer Support Agent0 minAgent creates enriched tickets from untracked alerts automaticallyThe support agent detects High and Critical alerts without tickets, creates pre-populated incident records with full device and alert context — no analyst has to copy-paste from the CB console.
- Human Resources12 min / weekManual offboarding device security steps
HR submits a ticket to IT security, who manually looks up the employee's devices in Carbon Black, quarantines each one, and marks the offboarding checklist — a process that takes hours and is often missed.
Human Resources Agent0 minAgent quarantines and deregisters offboarding devices automaticallyWhen an employee is offboarded, the agent finds their devices in Carbon Black, quarantines them, notifies IT, and updates the offboarding checklist — without any manual security team involvement.
- Finance25 min / weekManual cyber insurance coverage evidence prep
Finance manually coordinates with IT to get Carbon Black coverage numbers, reformats the data into the compliance register, and chases for updates if coverage is below threshold.
Finance Agent0 minAgent calculates and logs insurance coverage metrics monthlyWhen the monthly cyber insurance review fires, the agent retrieves Carbon Black device and policy data, calculates coverage rates, writes the evidence to the compliance register, and flags any shortfall.
- Operations90 min / weekManual alert triage, containment, and closure pipeline
Security analysts manually check the CB console for new alerts, copy details to incident tickets, quarantine devices from a separate UI tab, and dismiss resolved alerts manually after each incident closes.
Operations Agent0 minAgent runs the full alert-to-closure pipeline automaticallyThe operations agent detects new critical alerts, enriches them, quarantines devices, creates tickets, and syncs closures back to Carbon Black — the entire pipeline runs without manual intervention.
- Legal35 min / weekManual audit log export and compliance filing
Legal counsel manually requests CB audit log exports from IT, reformats the data for the compliance register, and manually checks each entry against the approved change request log.
Legal Agent0 minAgent builds compliance evidence packages automatically each weekThe legal agent retrieves Carbon Black audit logs weekly, compiles the regulatory evidence package, files it to the compliance repository, and flags out-of-window changes — no manual console export.
Calculate what your team saves
Based on Carbon Black's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~1.8 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How to plug Carbon Black into Actionist
Pick the connection method that suits your environment.
Carbon Black Cloud uses an API ID + API Secret Key pair alongside your Organisation Key and regional API URL. All four values are required for authenticated API calls. Generate them in the CB Cloud console under Settings → API Access.
Log into the Carbon Black Cloud console and go to Settings → API Access → Access Levels. Create or select an access level with the permissions appropriate for your use case (READ for monitoring, EXECUTE for response actions).
Go to Settings → API Access → API Keys and click Add API Key. Select your access level, give the key a descriptive name, and click Save. Copy both the API ID and the API Secret Key — the secret is only shown once.
Copy your Organisation Key from the top of the API Access page. Also note your API URL (the hostname in your console's browser address bar). Paste all four values — API ID, API Secret Key, Organisation Key, and API URL — into Actionist and click Test connection.
15 actions your agent can call
Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.
0 events your agent can react to
Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.
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