Dr. Sandro Gaycken is a technology- and security-researcher, exploring the nexus of digital technology, economies and politics. Sandro's research focus is on cyberwarfare, cyberdefense, cyberintelligence, and high security IT. He is a strong advocate of disruptive innovation and regulation in IT-security, proposing to solve the more high-end cyber problems through high security IT concepts from computer science, employing a range of industrial policies and economically beneficial market and investment strategies to overcome persistent market and policy failures.