Charles Edge is the chief technology officer of 318 Inc., a national Mac-first consultancy based in Santa Monica, California. Charles' expertise in iOS has enabled him to write numerous books that include countless established titles, such as the Enterprise Mac Administrator's Guide, Enterprise Mac Security, the Enterprise iPhone, iPad Administrator's Guide, and Using OS X Server from O'Reilly. Charles speaks at a number of conferences. His first large conference appearance was at DefCon 2004 and since then he has spoken at conferences such as MacSysAdmin, MacWorld, LinuxWorld, and BlackHat. Charles is also the author of krypted.com, a site dedicated to heterogeneous networking and Apple systems administration.