diff --git a/bsp-files/kickstarts/post_kernel_aio_and_compute.cfg b/bsp-files/kickstarts/post_kernel_aio_and_compute.cfg
index 8ec5cf7a..ef485211 100644
--- a/bsp-files/kickstarts/post_kernel_aio_and_compute.cfg
+++ b/bsp-files/kickstarts/post_kernel_aio_and_compute.cfg
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ if [[ "$subfunction" =~ lowlatency ]]; then
   KERN_OPTS="${KERN_OPTS} skew_tick=1"
 fi
 
+# spectre options
+KERN_OPTS="${KERN_OPTS} nopti nospectre_v2"
+
 perl -pi -e 's/(GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=.*)\"/\1'"$KERN_OPTS"'\"/g' /etc/default/grub
 
 if [ -d /sys/firmware/efi ] ; then
diff --git a/bsp-files/kickstarts/post_kernel_controller.cfg b/bsp-files/kickstarts/post_kernel_controller.cfg
index f782b6c4..5b85fc49 100644
--- a/bsp-files/kickstarts/post_kernel_controller.cfg
+++ b/bsp-files/kickstarts/post_kernel_controller.cfg
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ fi
 
 KERN_OPTS="${KERN_OPTS} cgroup_disable=memory"
 
+# spectre options
+KERN_OPTS="${KERN_OPTS} nopti nospectre_v2"
+
 perl -pi -e 's/(GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=.*)\"/\1'"$KERN_OPTS"'\"/g' /etc/default/grub
 
 if [ -d /sys/firmware/efi ] ; then
diff --git a/bsp-files/kickstarts/post_kernel_storage.cfg b/bsp-files/kickstarts/post_kernel_storage.cfg
index 7ede2eb9..e6ce726d 100644
--- a/bsp-files/kickstarts/post_kernel_storage.cfg
+++ b/bsp-files/kickstarts/post_kernel_storage.cfg
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ fi
 
 KERN_OPTS="${KERN_OPTS} cgroup_disable=memory"
 
+# spectre options
+KERN_OPTS="${KERN_OPTS} nopti nospectre_v2"
+
 perl -pi -e 's/(GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=.*)\"/\1'"$KERN_OPTS"'\"/g' /etc/default/grub
 
 if [ -d /sys/firmware/efi ] ; then