Kim Crawley

Kim Crawley is a Canadian Author of books and articles On It security specifically and on hacker and computer literacy in general. Of Maltese descent, her first hand-on-experience with computers was with her novelist father's Windows 3.1 OEM PC. Her IT career proper began with being employed as customer support, which first piqued her interest in malware. A wide-ranging consultant, free-lancer and self-described generalist, she has written and consulted for tech companies such as AT&T, BlackBerry, NGINX, Synack, and Hack The Box. She has published with O'Reilly Media, Packt Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., etc., and lives in Toronto, Canada, where she assiduously maintains a punk/goth aesthetic and DIY ethos. She is an autistic with ADHD.