Charles Edge (computer scientist)

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

Charles Edge
Born
Dahlonega, Georgia
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Georgia
Years active1998–Present
Children1

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 of 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". Reader's Digest. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
  2. "Charles Edge's Articles". Inc.com. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  3. "Charles Edge". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  4. Chuck (2020-05-06). "MacVoices #20130: 'How Long Should Tech Last' with Charles Edge, Ken Ray, and Brett Terpstra (Part 2)". MacVoices. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  5. Mitchell, Robert L. (2011-08-22). "Big Business Takes a [Small] Bite of the Apple". Computerworld. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  6. "r/macsysadmin - AMA w/ Charles Edge and the Apple management experts at JAMF Software". reddit. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  7. "Home". Bootstrappers.mn. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  8. "Whoami". krypted. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  9. "DEFCON 14 Speakers". www.defcon.org. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  10. "Black Hat USA 2006 Topics and Speakers". www.blackhat.com. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  11. "Macworld - Speaker Bios". linuxworldexpo.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  12. "MacSysAdmin 2020". macsysadmin.se. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  13. "Mac Admins Podcast". Mac Admins Podcast. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  14. "Jamf After Dark on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  15. "krypted - Overview". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  16. "Tamarisk Board".
  17. Jennings, Richi (2008-08-04). "Canceled Apple talks at Black Hat". Computerworld. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  18. "Black Hat Disputes Charles Edge Talk Even Submitted". Dark Reading. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  19. February 2021, 2nd. "New IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act: Creating a Floor For IoT Security?". IoT World Today. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
  20. "SANS Institute". www.sans.org. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  21. "Classes". Minnesota Computer History Museum. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
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