SideChannelMitigations

3.4.0-preview0005

Enterprise-grade PowerShell tool for assessing and managing Windows side-channel vulnerability mitigations with comprehensive hardware detection, intelligent platform-aware scoring, and automated backup/restore capabilities.

Minimum PowerShell version

5.1

This is a prerelease version of SideChannelMitigations.
There is a newer prerelease version of this module available.
See the version list below for details.

Installation Options

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Install-Module -Name SideChannelMitigations -RequiredVersion 3.4.0-preview0005 -AllowPrerelease

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Install-PSResource -Name SideChannelMitigations -Version 3.4.0-preview0005 -Prerelease

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Owners

Copyright

(c) Jan Tiedemann. All rights reserved.

Package Details

Author(s)

  • Jan Tiedemann

Tags

Security SideChannel Spectre Meltdown Vulnerability Mitigation Windows CPU CVE Assessment Registry HardwareDetection

Functions

Export-SideChannelAssessment Get-SideChannelMitigationDefinition Invoke-SideChannelAssessment New-SideChannelBackup Restore-SideChannelBackup

Dependencies

This module has no dependencies.

Release Notes

## [3.4.0-preview0005] - 2026-04-02

### Changed

- Display labels for CPU virtualization and IOMMU now adapt to the detected
 architecture: ARM64 shows "ARM VHE" / "SMMU", x86/x64 shows
 "VT-x/AMD-V" / "IOMMU/VT-d".
- Renamed prerequisite `CPU Virtualization (VT-x/AMD-V)` to
 `CPU Virtualization (VT-x/AMD-V/ARM VHE)`.
- Renamed prerequisite `IOMMU/VT-d Support` to
 `IOMMU (VT-d/AMD-Vi/ARM SMMU)`.
- Updated README sample output and hardware feature descriptions to
 include ARM64 equivalents.

FileList

Version History

Version Downloads Last updated
3.5.0 4 4/2/2026
3.5.0-previe... 4 4/2/2026
3.4.0 3 4/2/2026
3.4.0-previe... (current version) 2 4/2/2026
3.4.0-previe... 2 4/1/2026
3.3.1 4 4/1/2026
3.3.0 4 4/1/2026
3.3.0-previe... 2 4/1/2026
3.2.0 5 4/1/2026
3.1.1-previe... 2 4/1/2026
3.1.0 4 4/1/2026
3.0.0 4 4/1/2026
3.0.0-previe... 2 4/1/2026
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