Incident Responders: Can you give some examples of Incidents / types of incidents that are suitable for fully or partly automated response?

You setup security monitoring – either a full commercial SIEM/SOC or something home-cooked (e.g., rsyslog -> OSSIM / MozDef / Splunk / …).
You also setup some rules so that some event triage is done – and you only get alerts for potential Incidents.

I’d like to know what automation is being done beyond this point. Not just more alerting / sending emails or reports – but something that attempts to resolve the incident itself.

Some use cases and some examples of automation solutions (whether standard or DIY) would be helpful.

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