{"id":346983,"date":"2026-06-07T09:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T03:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=346983"},"modified":"2026-06-07T09:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T03:35:19","slug":"openai-unveils-lockdown-mode-to-guard-sensitive-data-from-prompt-injection-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/openai-unveils-lockdown-mode-to-guard-sensitive-data-from-prompt-injection-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to guard sensitive data from prompt injection attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/help.openai.com\/en\/articles\/20001061-lockdown-mode\">announced<\/a> a brand new feature that it says will provide additional protection from prompt injection attacks, where malicious chatbot instructions are hidden in webpages and other content sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amongst other things, Lockdown Mode will disable live web browsing (so you possibly can only access cached content), the retrieval and display of images from the online (you possibly can still generate images), deep research, and agent mode.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The corporate says that even with Lockdown Mode turned on, ChatGPT could still be vulnerable to prompt injections \u2014 which could, for instance, \u201cappear in cached web content or in an uploaded file, and will still affect the behavior or accuracy of a response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However the goal is to cut back the likelihood that sensitive data gets shared in the method.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLockdown Mode is <strong>not<\/strong> intended for everybody,\u201d OpenAI says. \u201cIt&#8217;s designed for people and organizations that handle sensitive data and wish stricter protection from data exfiltration risks related to prompt injection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The corporate says it\u2019s currently rolling Lockdown Mode out to self-serve ChatGPT Business accounts, in addition to eligible personal accounts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI announced a brand new feature that it says will provide additional protection from prompt injection attacks, where malicious chatbot instructions are hidden in webpages and other content sources. Amongst other things, Lockdown Mode will disable live web browsing (so you possibly can only access cached content), the retrieval and display of images from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4258,1479,25434,18986,1776,81,21525,2397,8770,3175],"class_list":["post-346983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-attacks","tag-data","tag-injection","tag-lockdown","tag-mode","tag-openai","tag-prompt","tag-protect","tag-sensitive","tag-unveils"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346986,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346983\/revisions\/346986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}