Dr. Sandro Gaycken’s research is focused on privacy, internet freedom, cybersecurity and its impact on modern warfare, intelligence and foreign affairs. He aims to solve the strategic cyberdefense problem through strong high security IT-concepts from computer science, coupled with strong industrial policies to overcome market failures. He is appointed director in NATO’s SPS program on national cyberstrategies and director of the cybersecurity working group. He served in the design of the German Foreign and Security Policy on IT-matters as the lead-author of the “internet freedom” and the “cybersecurity/cyberdefence” parts of this policy. He testified as an expert in many hearings in the Bundestag and provided strategic advice to the UNO, NATO, G8, EU and IAEA. He also served as an expert witness in international court cases concerned with military cyber espionage and cyber sabotage.

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