Kim Crawley

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Kim Crawley is a Canadian author of books and articles on IT security specifically^[1][2][3][4] and on hacker and computer literacy in general.^[5][6][7] 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,^[8] free-lancer^[9] 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.^{[10][11][12][13][14]}