why does battlefield need secure boot

Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot to be enabled as part of its anti-cheat and security measures. Secure Boot is a UEFI feature that ensures only trusted and verified software can run during the startup process, preventing unauthorized software like rootkits and cheats from loading at a low system level. By mandating Secure Boot, Battlefield leverages enhanced security features that help combat kernel-level cheats, memory manipulation, hardware ID spoofing, virtual machines, and tampering with anti-cheat systems. This requirement supports the effectiveness of EA's Javelin Anticheat system, which runs at the kernel level to provide stronger cheat detection and prevention while also securing the game environment for fair play. Secure Boot also ties into other security features like TPM 2.0 and virtualization-based security (VBS) to bolster system integrity against cheating attempts.