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 is the technical editor for the upcoming Mac OS X for Unix Geeks from O'Reilly who he is also in the process of completing a book on Mac OS X Server for.
Edge maintains a blog at krypted.com. and manages the 318 company blog,. Edge is also a contributor and editor for Microstan.. 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.
Edge has taught classes and has spoken at many training centers/events, including DefCon, LinuxWorld Canada BlackHat., MacWorld 2006, WWDC 2006, MacWorld 2008, MacWorld 2009, Southern California Linux Expo 2006, Southern California Linux Expo 2008, MacSysAdmin 2009 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.