Product definition

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/

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Overview

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.

Description published by the developer on northpole.security.

Overview

Binary and file access authorization system.

Santa runs on macOS and is listed on Nuanyue in the security category.

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