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Session Management Security vs UX Tradeoff

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Balancing session security with user experience is fundamentally difficult: shorter sessions (under 1 hour per OWASP) enhance security but increase authentication friction; longer sessions improve UX but expand the window for session hijacking. Most consumer apps compromise on security.

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