And if they cannot find a product for their needs, they build it.

Dubbed Santa, it is a binary watchdog for MacOS.

Google released this product on toGitHubso that other could contribute to its development.

‘Santa’ Google’s new enterprise malware watchdog for Mac OS

Santa is a very early version of a watchdog.

Features

The product has 2 modes, Santas Monitor mode and Lockdown.

In Santas Monitor mode, everything is allowed to run except for the blacklisted binaries.

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And in Lockdown mode, only whitelisted binaries are allowed to run i.e.

The tool does contain a few bugs though.

So users are recommended to use it with caution.

source: www.techworm.net