Built by the creators of Santa
North Pole Security was founded to make proactive endpoint protection usable at scale. We're the team behind Santa, the most trusted macOS security agent.
Our mission
Stop threats before they run
The security industry has spent decades chasing threats after they've already infiltrated systems. We believe there's a better way.
- North Pole Security exists to make proactive endpoint protection, the practice of blocking threats before they can execute, usable for organizations of any size.
- We're the team behind Santa, originally pioneered at Google and now maintained by NPS. We bring that same prevention-first discipline to every enterprise that runs macOS.
Our story
A decade of macOS security, from Google to NPS
Created Santa at Google
Built the binary authorization system protecting 100,000+ macOS devices.
Founded North Pole Security
Forked Santa from Google to accelerate development. Google officially redirected to the NPS repository.
Raised $4M seed from a16z
12 releases, 470+ pull requests merged in the first year. More in one year than Google merged in ten.
The team
Founders who shipped the software you already trust
Our team brings deep experience from Google, Meta, Coinbase, and the broader macOS security community. We created Santa, ran the Mac security stack at Google, and shipped the Endpoint Security Framework that every macOS security product depends on.
Pete Markowsky
CEO
Co-founded and scaled Capsule8 (enterprise cloud EDR, sold to Sophos). Led all first-party security agent development at Google, including Santa.
Russell Hancox
CTO
One of two original authors of Santa. 13+ year Google veteran and staff engineer. Ran Google's Mac build system and Mac operations.
Tom Burgin
Founding Engineer
One of two original authors of Santa. 8+ year Google senior engineer. Built and ran Google's Mac build system.
Matt White
Founding Engineer
Original author and lead of Apple's Endpoint Security Framework that all macOS security products must use. Last Santa lead at Google.
Our values
How we build
The principles that guide how we build Workshop and partner with our customers.
Prevention first
We believe in stopping threats, not just detecting them. Block by default, approve with confidence.
Open source commitment
Santa will always be open source. We build in the open and welcome community contributions.
Customer partnership
We build alongside Fortune 500 security teams, not just for them. Their reality shapes our roadmap.
Backed by
Andreessen Horowitz led our $4M seed
North Pole Security raised a $4M seed round led by a16z to accelerate our go-to-market efforts and enhance Workshop, our flagship endpoint protection platform.
- Funding fuels engineering velocity. In our first year we shipped 12 releases and merged 470+ pull requests, more than Google did in ten.
See Workshop in action
Find out how Workshop can protect your organization with prevention-first endpoint security.