Dr Gaycken is a technology and security researcher, exploring the nexus of digital technology, economies and politics. His research focus is on cyberwarfare, cyberdefence, 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. He has published more than 60 articles and books on these topics, and regularly writes op-eds in leading newspapers and consults for medium and large entreprises and the financial sector. He has authored official German government publications and is a fellow of Oxford University’s Martin College, in the working group on cyberdefence and cyberintelligence.