EndpointSecurity(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual EndpointSecurity(7)
NAME
EndpointSecurity – APIs for applications to implement system security
policy
DESCRIPTION
The EndpointSecurity (ES) subsystem is a set of functionality to expose
security relevant system events to applications (ES clients). ES clients
can either be standalone applications/executables or installed as system
extensions.
If the ES client is a system extension, the following optional keys can
be set in the bundle's Info.plist:
NSEndpointSecurityEarlyBoot
Type: Boolean
If set to TRUE, the ES subsystem will hold up all mounts and
third party executions (anything that is not a platform binary)
until all early boot ES extensions make their first
subscription.
NSEndpointSecurityRebootRequired
Type: Boolean
If not set or set to FALSE, the new version of the extension is
started immediately after terminating the old version.
If set to TRUE, the new version of the extension is NOT started
until the system reboots. When the system reboots, only the new
version will be started and the old version will be removed.
This ensures there is no gap in monitoring of subscribed events.
NSEndpointSecurityMachServiceName
Type: String
If set, this string will be the name of the MachService which
can be used for XPC between the ES extension and its app. If
not set, a default mach service (name: <teamID>.<bundleID>.xpc)
will be provided but its usage is deprecated.
SEE ALSO
endpointsecurityd(8), sysextd(8), libEndpointSecurity(3)
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