  We present timing, spectral, and long-term temporal analysis of the high mass
X-ray binary (HMXB) 4U 1036-56 using INTEGRAL and Swift observations. We show
that it is a weak hard X-ray source spending a major fraction of the time in
quiescence, and only occasionally characterized by X-ray outbursts. The
outburst activity we report here lasts several days, with a dynamic range
spanned by the luminosity in quiescence and in outburst as high as ~30. We
report the detection of pulse period at 854.75+/-4.39 s during an outburst,
which is consistent with previous measurements. Finally, we analyze the
possibility of 4U 1036--56's association with the unidentified transient
gamma-ray sources AGL J1037--5708 & GRO J1036--55, as prompted by its
positional correlation.
