Intel® Core™ Ultra Processor

Datasheet, Volume 1 of 2
Supporting Intel® Core™ Ultra Processor for U/H/U-Type4-series Platforms, formerly known as Meteor Lake

ID Date Version Classification
792044 03/05/2024 Public

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Intel® Hardware Shield

Intel Hardware Shield, exclusive to the Intel vPro platform, helps reduce the attack surface of the system by locking down system critical resources to help prevent malicious code injection from compromising the OS, helping to ensure the OS runs on known hardware, and delivering hardware-to-OS security reporting to enable the OS to enforce a more comprehensive security policy. In addition, Intel Hardware Shield offers advanced threat protection features that can perform active memory scanning to help improve the detection of advanced threats while reducing false positives and minimizing performance impact.

Intel Hardware shield contains the following features:

  • Intel® BIOS Guard
  • Intel® Boot Guard
  • Intel® Firmware Update/Recovery
  • Intel® Platform Trust Technology (Intel® PTT)
  • Intel® Runtime BIOS Resilience
  • Intel® System Resource Defense
  • Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT)
  • Intel® System Security Report

For more information refer to https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/vpro/hardware-shield-overview-brief.html