Air Force cyber official urges investment in digital forensics
Original title: Air Force cyber official: need to invest in digital forensics
Principal Cyber Advisor Wanda Jones-Heath calls for increased focus on digital forensics to detect and respond to incidents.
Wanda Jones-Heath, Principal Cyber Advisor for the Department of the Air Force, said the government needs to invest in digital forensics to keep pace with incidents and threats in cyberspace. Speaking at the Datadog Threat Response Forum on November 5, 2026, she emphasized that forensics play a vital role even though they are after the fact. Jones-Heath also recommended changing how cyber exercises are conducted to move beyond reactive mode and share real-world adversary intelligence.
- Digital forensics are essential to detect, hunt, and find where incidents started.
- Combining operations and security teams into one unit is a disaster.
- Cyber exercises should engage offensive and defensive teams.
- They must get over the fact that incidents could never happen.
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- Datadog
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- Department of the Air Force
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