Charles Edge (computer scientist)
American computer scientist and author (died 2024) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 | |
| 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
References
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