This document discusses using Splunk for incident response, orchestration, and automation. It notes that incident response currently takes significant time, with containment and response phases accounting for 72% of the time spent on incidents. It proposes that security operations need to change through orchestration and automation using adaptive response. Adaptive response aims to accelerate detection, investigation, and response by centrally automating data retrieval, sharing, and response actions across security tools and domains. This improves efficiency and extracts new insights through leveraging shared context and actions.