Charles Edge (writer)

Charles Edge is an American author, courseware developer, engineer, and technology executive currently with JAMF Software.
Edge was born in Dahlonega, Georgia, where he attended Lumpkin County High School in Lumpkin County School District. 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. Edge is a contributing author for Inc.com and Huffington Post.
After 15 years as the Chief Technology Officer of 318 Inc in Santa Monica, Edge is currently employed at JAMF Software. Edge was initially brought on to create Bushel, now called Jamf Now but has since moved to become the Director, Professional Services and now serves as the Director, Marketplace at Jamf.
Edge also works on a number of open source projects including precache, swift-ldif-csv, and jssimporter.
Edge serves on the board of directors of Tamarisk and on the corporate council of the Guthrie Theater.
Bibliography (Author)
*Mac Tiger Little Black Book. Paraglyph Press, February 2006,
*Web Scripting Little Black Book. Paraglyph Press, April 2007,
*Foundations of Mac OS X Security. Apress, March 2008,
*Enterprise Mac Administrators Guide. Apress, October 2009,
*Foundations of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Security. Apress, February 2010,
*Beginning Mac OS X Server. Apress, February 2010,
*Mac OS X Lion Server. O'Reilley, January 2011,
*Using Apple Configurator. Packt, January 2012, ISBN
*Take Control of OS X Yosemite Server. TidBits, January 2013, ISBN
*Take Control of OS X Mavericks Server. TidBits, January 2014, ISBN
*Learning iOS Security. Packt, January 2015, ISBN
*Enterprise Mac Administrators Guide.Apress, September 2015, ISBN
*Fundamentals of Mac OS X 10.11 Security.Apress, September 2015, ISBN
Speaker
Edge has spoken at DefCon, LinuxWorld Canada BlackHat., MacWorld 2006, WWDC 2006, MacWorld 2008, MacWorld 2009, MacWorld 2010, MacWorld 2011, MacWorld 2012, Southern California Linux Expo 2006, Southern California Linux Expo 2008, MacSysAdmin 2009, MacSysAdmin 2010, MacSysAdmin 2011, MacSysAdmin 2012, MacSysAdmin 2013, MacTech Conference 2011, MacTech Conference 2012, MacTech New York 2012, MacTech Minneapolis 2012, the JAMF Nation User Conference 2012 and SANS Orlando 2008.
Edge 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.
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,

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