Charles Edge (computer scientist)

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Charles Edge
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Edge on September 18, 2009
Born
Dahlonega, Georgia
DiedApril 19, 2024
NationalityAmerican
Education University of Georgia
Years active1998–2024
Children2

Charles Edge was an American computer scientist, author, [1] podcaster, [2] and a contributing author for Inc.com [3] and Huffington Post. [4]

Contents

Edge spent 15 years as the Chief Technology Officer [5] of 318 Inc [6] in Santa Monica and 5 years at Jamf. [7] At the time of his death, he was the Chief Technology Officer of Bootstrappers.mn [8] and HandrailUX. [9] Edge spoke at Defcon, [10] Blackhat, [11] LinuxWorld, [12] MacSysAdmin, [13] and a number of other conferences.

Edge died on April 19, 2024. [14]

Bibliography (author)

Podcasts

Edge maintained the following podcasts:

Community work

Edge worked on a number of open source projects including precache, swift-ldif-csv, and jssimporter [17] and served on the board of directors of Tamarisk [18] 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. [19] The talk was later disputed having ever existed. [20]

Edge wrote the SANS course on Mac OS X Security in 2007, establishing baseline security practices for Apple and IoT [21] devices in large-scale environments. [22]

Edge founded the Minnesota non-profit Minnesota Computer History Museum in January 2020. [23]

Editor

Edge was 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

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  2. ↑ "Episode 1: It Begins". Mac Admins Podcast. 2016-03-23. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  3. ↑ "Charles Edge's Articles". Inc.com. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  4. ↑ "Charles Edge". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Mitchell, Robert L. (2011-08-22). "Big Business Takes a [Small] Bite of the Apple". Computerworld. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  7. ↑ "r/macsysadmin - AMA w/ Charles Edge and the Apple management experts at JAMF Software". reddit. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  8. ↑ "Home". Bootstrappers.mn. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  9. ↑ "Whoami". krypted. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  10. ↑ "DEFCON 14 Speakers". www.defcon.org. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  11. ↑ "Black Hat USA 2006 Topics and Speakers". www.blackhat.com. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  12. ↑ "Macworld - Speaker Bios". linuxworldexpo.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  13. ↑ "MacSysAdmin 2020". macsysadmin.se. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  14. ↑ Engst, Adam (22 April 2024). "Take Control Author Charles Edge Dies". Tidbits . Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  15. ↑ "Mac Admins Podcast". Mac Admins Podcast. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  16. ↑ "Jamf After Dark on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  17. ↑ "krypted - Overview". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  18. ↑ "Tamarisk Board". Archived from the original on 2019-04-24.
  19. ↑ Jennings, Richi (2008-08-04). "Canceled Apple talks at Black Hat". Computerworld. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  20. ↑ "Black Hat Disputes Charles Edge Talk Even Submitted". Dark Reading. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  21. ↑ February 2021, 2nd. "New IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act: Creating a Floor For IoT Security?". IoT World Today. Retrieved 2021-02-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  22. ↑ "SANS Institute". www.sans.org. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  23. ↑ "Classes". Minnesota Computer History Museum. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
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