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, and passed the
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)exam on her first attempt ''whilst'' writing a book. 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.
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