Charles Edge (computer scientist)

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

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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)

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):

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References

  1. Campbell, Leah (2021-01-12). "How to Permanently Delete iPhone Apps". Reader's Digest. Archived from the original on 2021-01-19. 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". Archived from the original on 2019-04-24.
  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.