With the collection of your Box Enterprise account activities through the configured AlienApp for Box, USM Anywhere collects, enriches, and analyzes data from your Box environment. It detects any suspicious activity, such as anomalous user behavior, credential abuse, or brute-forceTechnique or attack method, typically used with authentication, involving an exhaustive procedure that tries all possibilities (for example, to find a valid password), one-by-one. authentications. When USM Anywhere detects a threat, it generates an alarmAlarms provide notification of an event or sequence of events that require attention or investigation.. See the following table for examples of alarms that the AlienApp may produce.

Examples of Alarms Generated from Box Data

Intent	Strategy	Method
System Compromise	Credential Abuse	Authentication to Box from a known malicious host
	Ransomware Infection	Multiple uploads with known ransomware extension
		Ransomware decryption instructions file upload
Exploitation & Installation	Malware Infection	Executable downloaded from Box followed by malware activity
Delivery & Attack	Brute Force Authentication	Successful login after a brute-force attack
		Password spraying against Box
	Data Exfiltration	File sent to a known malicious host
	Known Malicious Infrastructure	Box application created from a known malicious host
		File shared from a known malicious host
Reconnaissance & Probing	Brute Force Authentication	Multiple login failures
Environmental Awareness	Access Control Modification	Two-factor authentication disabled
	Account Manipulation	Multiple user accounts deleted
	Anomalous User Behavior	Admin login from an unknown device
	Credential Abuse	User login from two different countries in a short period
	Defense Evasion - Cover Tracks	User account created and deleted in short period
	Defense Evasion - Disabling Security Tools	Box security policy deleted
	Malware Infection	Box detected a malicious file upload
	Sensitive Data Disclosure	Box support access granted

You can create more rules to generate alarms for the Box events that are important to you. See Creating Alarm Rules from the Events page for detailed instructions. If you want to use the Disable Box User action from the resulting alarm, you must select source_userid as one of the fields when creating such a rule. For example:

Similarly, if you want to use the Create Box Task action from the resulting alarm, you must select file_id and file_owner as highlight fields when creating the alarm rule.