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
Died	April 19, 2024
Nationality	American
Education	University of Georgia
Years active	1998–2024
Children	2

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)

• 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 maintained the following podcasts:

• MacAdmins Podcast https://podcast.macadmins.org^[15]
• Jamf After Dark Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jamf-after-dark/id1434572611^[16]
• The History Of Computing http://thehistoryofcomputing.net

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):

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