Charles Edge (computer scientist)


Charles Edge is an American computer scientist and author. Edge is a contributing author for Inc.com and Huffington Post.
Edge spent 15 years as the Chief Technology Officer of 318 Inc in Santa Monica and 5 years at Jamf Pro. He is now the Chief Technology Officer of Bootstrappers and HandrailUX. Edge has spoken at Defcon, Blackhat, LinuxWorld, MacSysAdmin, and a number of other conferences.

Podcasts

Edge maintains the following podcasts:
Edge works on a number of open source projects including precache, swift-ldif-csv, and jssimporter and serves on the board of directors of Tamarisk 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. The talk was later disputed having ever existed.
Edge wrote the SANS course on Mac OS X Security in 2007, establishing baseline security practices for Apple devices in large-scale environments.
Edge founded the Minnesota non-profit Minnesota Computer History Museum in January of 2020.

Editor

Edge is on the Editorial team for the Apple Inc. platform, with Apress. Edge was also the technical editor for the following title: