- Charles Edge (writer)
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For the basketball player, see Charles Edge (basketball).
Charles Edge is an English born American author, courseware developer, and the Director of Technology of 318, Inc.
Edge was born in Dahlonega, Georgia, where he attended Lumpkin County High School. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1997 and enrolled in the MBA program there before dropping out early to begin his consulting career. While at the University of Georgia, Edge joined Phi Kappa Theta fraternity where he was an officer. Edge has also been enrolled at Cornell, although it is unclear as to whether he completed his MBA there either.
Edge's main focus is the information technology industry, in particular heterogeneous directory services integration, Apple Open Directory, Apple Filing Protocol, security, mail and groupware and SAN file systems, with Xsan in particular. He has written several books on Mac OS X Server, networking, security and scripting.
Edge maintains a blog at krypted.com.[1] and manages the 318 company blog,.[2] Edge is also a contributor and editor for Microstan.[3] Brainbench.com has also used Edge to develop their Mac OS X Server and WIndows Server 2008 exams.
After 10 years in Los Angeles, Edge now lives in Minneapolis. According to Apress, Edge is currently editing his fifth book on Mac OS X Security and completing his sixth on Mac OS X Server.
Contents
Bibliography (Author)
- Mac Tiger Little Black Book. Paraglyph Press, February 2006, ISBN 1933097140
- Web Scripting Little Black Book. Paraglyph Press, April 2007, ISBN 1933097191
- Foundations of Mac OS X Security. Apress, March 2008, ISBN 1590599896
- Foundations of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Security. Apress, February 2010, ISBN 1430227303
- Enterprise Mac Administrators Guide. Apress, October 2009, ISBN 1430224436
- Beginning Mac OS X Server. Apress, February 2010, ISBN 1430227729
- Mac OS X Lion Server. O'Reilley, January 2012, ISBN 1449316050
Speaker
Edge has taught classes and has spoken at many training centers/events, including DefCon,[4] LinuxWorld Canada [5] BlackHat.,[6] MacWorld 2006, WWDC 2006, MacWorld 2008, MacWorld 2009, Southern California Linux Expo 2006, Southern California Linux Expo 2008, MacSysAdmin 2009[7] and SANS Orlando 2008.
Edge was to give a speech on a vulnerability to the Mac OS X FileVault at Black Hat 2008 until the talk was pulled after Edge cited a non-disclosure agreement that the talk would be in violation of.[8]
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):
- Mac OS X for Unix Geeks. O'Reilly, September 2008, ISBN 059652062X
References
- ^ Krypted
- ^ TechJournal
- ^ Microstan
- ^ DefCon
- ^ Linux World
- ^ BlackHat
- ^ MacSysAdmin Europe
- ^ Vamosi, Robert (2008-08-06). "Black Hat says 'canceled' Apple talk never existed". CNET News. CBS Interactive. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10008152-83.html. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
External links
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