For the people who work an incident, and the boards who carry the consequences.
Open membership is free. Practitioner Member and Boardroom tiers are application-based.
Most organisations only learn about incident response when they need it. That is the wrong time.
IRC brings together the people who respond to incidents, the boards who carry the consequences, and the IR firms building the practice.
We share what we know, run the events we wish existed, and write the resources we wish we'd had on day one.
From 2026, IRC organises around four drivers: Forums, Events, Resources, and Training. Forums and Events are live now. The Resources library and Training are evolving in place from the work IRC has been publishing since 2017.
Because the conversations the practitioners need are not the conversations the boards need.
Monthly community calls, regional breakfasts, occasional offsites. Plus every IRC event since 2017, including the 11 IR19 talks, kept and indexed.
See upcoming events →The Playbook Policy Engine, the books and frameworks library, useful links and the job board carry over. The first Practitioner Runbooks, member-authored and attributed, are live now.
Browse the library →Learning paths by career stage and mentor matching are live now. The webinar library follows as community calls are recorded; the IR19 talks remain in the archive.
Find a path →A responder building or running an IR function inside an organisation.
An NED or Chair on a board where IR is now an agenda item, not a footnote.
A practitioner doing the work and wanting somewhere to compare notes with peers.
An IR firm thinking seriously about how the discipline should be practiced.
Someone earlier in their career, looking for the path through.
Anyone else who picks up something useful here. The open tier doesn't gatekeep.
Six tiers, from Open through to Founding Partner. Honest about what each one gives you.
The community has changed direction. Same domain, same gear, broader scope, with a sharper focus on the four areas above. Everything published since 2017 stays, and the navigation gets you back to it in one click.
A fuller note for returning members goes out later this year, alongside the membership re-affirmation flow.
Say hello in the meantime →The IR19 presentations, the Playbook Policy Engine, the books and frameworks library, the job board, and the full blog all carry over. The relaunch adds new sections rather than replacing the old ones.
Looking for something specific? Use the search up top, or email hello@incidentresponse.com and we will dig it out.
View the full archiveSixty minutes, one practitioner leads with a short case or question, the rest is peer discussion. Register and we'll email you as soon as a date is set.
Register to be notifiedTwelve people, no slides, two hours. Agenda set by attendees the week before. Register and we'll email you as soon as a date is set.
Register to be notifiedThe UK Boardroom Forum opens for invitations later this year. Format and membership terms are now published.
Read the announcementIRC is operated by Outbreach. The funding model, the partner contributions, and the editorial firewall between partners and the Resources library are disclosed in full.
You can read it, judge it, and tell us if you think we have it wrong. We would rather hear it now than read it later.
Community calls coming up, new resources published, and what we're seeing across the membership.
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