Biography:Charles Edge (computer scientist)

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Short description: American computer scientist and author
Charles Edge
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Born
Dahlonega, Georgia
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Georgia
Years active1998–Present
Children2

Charles Edge is an American computer scientist and author.[1] Edge is a contributing author for Inc.com[2] and Huffington Post.[3]

Edge spent 15 years as the Chief Technology Officer[4] of 318 Inc[5] in Santa Monica and 5 years at Jamf Pro.[6] He is now the Chief Technology Officer of Bootstrappers[7] and HandrailUX.[8] Edge has spoken at Defcon,[9] Blackhat,[10] LinuxWorld,[11] MacSysAdmin,[12] and a number of other conferences.

Bibliography (author)

  • Mac Tiger Little Black Book. Paraglyph Press, February 2006, ISBN:1-933097-14-0
  • Web Scripting Little Black Book. Paraglyph Press, April 2007, ISBN:1-933097-19-1
  • Foundations of Mac OS X Security. Apress, March 2008, ISBN:1-59059-989-6
  • Enterprise Mac Administrators Guide. Apress, October 2009, ISBN:1-4302-2443-6
  • Foundations of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Security. Apress, February 2010, ISBN:1-4302-2730-3
  • Beginning Mac OS X Server. Apress, February 2010, ISBN:1-4302-2772-9
  • Mac OS X Lion Server. O'Reilley, January 2011, ISBN:1-4493-1605-0
  • Using Apple Configurator. Packt, January 2012, ISBN:1849694060
  • Take Control of OS X Yosemite Server. TidBits, January 2013, ISBN:978-1-61542-435-1
  • Take Control of OS X Mavericks Server. TidBits, January 2014, ISBN:978-1-61542-435-1
  • Learning iOS Security. Packt, January 2015, ISBN:1783551747
  • Enterprise Mac Administrators Guide.Apress, September 2015, ISBN:1430224436
  • Fundamentals of Mac OS X 10.11 Security.Apress, September 2015, ISBN:148421711X
  • Enterprise Mac Security. Apress, ISBN:148421711X
  • Build, Run, and Sell Your Apple Consulting Practice. Apress, August 2018, ISBN:9781484238349
  • Apple Device Management. Apress, January 2020, ISBN:1484253876
  • The ABCs of Computers (2022)
  • The Startup Field Guide (2022)
  • The History of Computers (2023)

Podcasts

Edge maintains the following podcasts:

Community work

Edge works on a number of open source projects including precache, swift-ldif-csv, and jssimporter[15] and serves on the board of directors of Tamarisk[16] and on the corporate council of the Guthrie Theater.

Edge spoke at Black Hat 2007 and was scheduled to give a speech on a vulnerability of the Mac OS X FileVault at Black Hat 2008 but the talk was pulled after he cited a non-disclosure agreement the talk would violate.[17] The talk was later disputed having ever existed.[18]

Edge wrote the SANS course on Mac OS X Security in 2007, establishing baseline security practices for Apple and IoT [19] devices in large-scale environments.[20]

Edge founded the Minnesota non-profit Minnesota Computer History Museum in January 2020.[21]

Editor

Edge is on the Editorial team for the Apple Inc. platform, with Apress. Edge was also the technical editor for the following title(s):

  • Mac OS X for Unix Geeks. O'Reilly, September 2008, ISBN:0-596-52062-X

References

  1. Campbell, Leah (2021-01-12). "How to Permanently Delete iPhone Apps" (in en-US). https://www.rd.com/article/how-to-delete-apps-iphone/. 
  2. "Charles Edge's Articles". https://www.inc.com/author/charles-edge. 
  3. "Charles Edge". HuffPost. https://www.huffpost.com/author/krypted-233. 
  4. Chuck (2020-05-06). "MacVoices #20130: 'How Long Should Tech Last' with Charles Edge, Ken Ray, and Brett Terpstra (Part 2)" (in en-US). http://www.macvoices.com/macvoices-20130-how-long-should-tech-last-with-charles-edge-ken-ray-and-brett-terpstra-part-2/. 
  5. Mitchell, Robert L. (2011-08-22). "Big Business Takes a [Small Bite of the Apple"] (in en). https://www.computerworld.com/article/2550036/big-business-takes-a--small--bite-of-the-apple.html. 
  6. "r/macsysadmin - AMA w/ Charles Edge and the Apple management experts at JAMF Software" (in en-US). https://www.reddit.com/r/macsysadmin/comments/4pkght/ama_w_charles_edge_and_the_apple_management/. 
  7. "Home" (in en). https://www.bootstrappers.mn/. 
  8. "Whoami" (in en-US). https://krypted.com/about-2/. 
  9. "DEFCON 14 Speakers". https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-14/dc-14-speakers.html. 
  10. "Black Hat USA 2006 Topics and Speakers". https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-06/bh-usa-06-speakers.html. 
  11. "Macworld - Speaker Bios". http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/dev/20/events/20SFO05A/conference/bio//CMONYA00B5A9#. 
  12. "MacSysAdmin 2020". http://macsysadmin.se/. 
  13. "Mac Admins Podcast" (in en-US). https://podcast.macadmins.org/. 
  14. "Jamf After Dark on Apple Podcasts" (in en-us). https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jamf-after-dark/id1434572611. 
  15. "krypted - Overview" (in en). https://github.com/krypted. 
  16. "Tamarisk Board". http://www.tamarisk.org/team/charles-edge. 
  17. Jennings, Richi (2008-08-04). "Canceled Apple talks at Black Hat" (in en). https://www.computerworld.com/article/2478677/canceled-apple-talks-at-black-hat.html. 
  18. "Black Hat Disputes Charles Edge Talk Even Submitted" (in en). https://www.informationweek.com/news/229210327. 
  19. February 2021, 2nd. "New IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act: Creating a Floor For IoT Security?" (in en-GB). https://www.iotworldtoday.com/2021/02/02/new-iot-cybersecurity-improvement-act-creating-a-floor-for-iot-security/. 
  20. "SANS Institute" (in en). https://www.sans.org/thought-leaders/osx-security. 
  21. "Classes" (in en-US). https://www.minnesotacomputerhistorymuseum.com/about-us.