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Charles Edge (computer scientist)

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

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

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)

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  • 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

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Edge maintained the following podcasts:

Community work

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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

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

References

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  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. ^ "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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