diff --git a/include/arch/aarch64/arch.h b/include/arch/aarch64/arch.h
index debe872..d3c5bea 100644
--- a/include/arch/aarch64/arch.h
+++ b/include/arch/aarch64/arch.h
@@ -843,4 +843,9 @@
 #define DIT			S3_3_C4_C2_5
 #define DIT_BIT			BIT(24)
 
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Armv8.5 - new MSR encoding to directly access PSTATE.SSBS field
+ ******************************************************************************/
+#define SSBS			S3_3_C4_C2_6
+
 #endif /* ARCH_H */
diff --git a/lib/cpus/aarch64/neoverse_n1.S b/lib/cpus/aarch64/neoverse_n1.S
index c6a5c08..060c625 100644
--- a/lib/cpus/aarch64/neoverse_n1.S
+++ b/lib/cpus/aarch64/neoverse_n1.S
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@
 
 func neoverse_n1_reset_func
 	mov	x19, x30
+
+	/* Disables speculative loads */
+	msr	SSBS, xzr
+
 	bl	cpu_get_rev_var
 	mov	x18, x0