Santa
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Santa overview
Santa is a binary whitelisting/blacklisting system for macOS. It consists of a kernel extension that monitors for executions, a userland daemon that makes execution decisions based on the contents of a SQLite database, a GUI agent that notifies the user in case of a block decision and a command-line utility for managing the system and synchronizing the database with a server. It is named Santa because it keeps track of binaries that are naughty or nice.
What’s new in version 2023.3
Updated on Apr 26 2023
Changed:
- santactl/rule: Validate identifier is a valid SHA-256 for binary/cert rules
- Config: Ignore static rules with an invalid identifier
- metrics: Properly report "file access client enabled" metrics
- chore(ci): Upgrade workflows to non-deprecated runtimes
- Basic rate limiting for File Access Authorizer
- config: Support filesystem monitoring config embedded in main Santa config
- [BUGFIX] Fix SD Card Block not operating on Internal SD Card Readers
- test: Fix a couple last TSAN failures
- docs: Document SigningID and PlatformBinary exception keys
- sync: Allow server to override the header for transmitting XSRF tokens
- sync: Fix case of empty header name
- protolog: Change types of repeated args and envs fields
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App requirements
- Intel 64
- Apple Silicon
- macOS 11 or later
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Dec 2 2022
Version: 2022.11
No actual benefit to enduser that I could see running it since it came out. Waste of space.
Jul 10 2018
Version: 0.9.28
MacUpdate's download link is invalid. I was able to get this version from: https://github.com/google/santa/releases
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