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Comment: There's almost no sources about the subject himself, and LinkedIn Pulse is considered an unreliable source. Vanilla Wizard 💙 22:09, 29 June 2025 (UTC)- Comment: Needs sources about him, not his books. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (💬 • ✍️) 10:39, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
Chris Binnie is a British cyber-security consultant and author who has worked in Internet infrastructure and security since the dial-up era of the 1990s.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]Early work
[edit | edit source]Binnie began commenting on network-security issues while working for NSL Internet in Edinburgh. During a nationwide Internet outage in July 1997, The Scotsman quoted him as saying the disruption was “an escalating mess with errors left, right and centre”.[2]
Below Zero
[edit | edit source]In March 2001 Binnie founded the specialist co-location provider Below Zero in Edinburgh.[3]
Two months later, The Herald reported that Binnie had secured bank backing and was seeking a six-figure funding round to expand its rack space at Telecity’s data centre.[4]
A trade-press note the following month highlighted Below Zero’s strategy of offering multi-carrier bandwidth within Telecity to cut customers’ costs.[5]
Streaming and security work
[edit | edit source]During the 2010s Binnie developed a cloud-based live-streaming platform used for events such as the World Youth Netball Championships and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.[1]
Writing
[edit | edit source]Binnie writes regular security columns for Linux-focused magazines and has authored several technical books, including:
- Linux Server Security: Hack & Defend (Wiley, 2016) – ISBN 978-1-119-34936-6[1]
- Practical Linux Topics (Apress, 2015) – ISBN 978-1-4842-1008-3
- Cloud Native Security (Wiley, 2021) – ISBN 978-1-119-78223-0
References
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