Professor Givens teaches undergraduate courses on digital forensics and information security at Utica College. He has also taught graduate courses on critical infrastructure protection, cyber incident management and network security. Austen is currently completing work on a book about public-private sector partnerships for Marine Corps University Press and co-authoring a textbook on homeland security with Oxford University Press.
Before entering academia in 2011, he served in various information technology-related roles for the Department of Homeland Security and the private sector. He received a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Department of Political Economy at King's College London.
