What is Santa?
Binary and file access authorization system.
Verified product facts
- Type
- security toolEditorially reviewed
- Platform
- macOS
- Pricing
- Open sourceDeveloper-stated
- Open source
- Yes
- Relationship to Nuanyue
- Third-party product — not published by NuanyueEditorially reviewed
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Current version
- 2026.8Developer-stated
- Official website
- northpole.security/
Last updated . Facts marked developer-stated come from the developer and are not independently confirmed; editorially reviewed marks a Nuanyue judgement.
What Santa does
North Pole Security builds proactive endpoint protection for macOS. Workshop is the control plane for Santa, the open source allowlisting tool from Google.
Overview
Binary and file access authorization system.
Santa runs on macOS and is listed on Nuanyue in the security category.
Links
Sources
Facts on this page are checked against the sources below. Last updated .
- Santa — official websiteGrade B
- Santa — source repositoryGrade D





