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Set a session timeout policy for all admin accounts

20-30 min Impact: medium Effort: low ✓ Manual completion

A session timeout policy automatically logs out inactive admin sessions after a defined period, closing the real risk of a session left open indefinitely on a shared, unattended, or lost device.

An admin session that never expires means anyone with physical or network access to that logged-in device has your full admin access, indefinitely, a real and avoidable risk.

How to do it

  1. 1
    Check current session timeout settings
    Across your CMS, hosting panel, and any other admin tools.
  2. 2
    Set a reasonable timeout period
    Long enough not to constantly interrupt genuine work, short enough to close real risk from an unattended session.
  3. 3
    Apply this consistently across every admin tool
    Not just your most obvious one.
  4. 4
    Test that it actually works
    Confirm a genuinely inactive session does get logged out as configured.

Common mistakes

How you will know it is done

A real session timeout policy is active and confirmed working across your admin tools.

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