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Secure Session Management

How to do that?

Well,

  1. Use HTTPS for all session cookie transmission.
  2. Set session cookies to HttpOnly and Secure flags to enhance security.
  3. Implement session expiration and regeneration to mitigate session fixation attacks.

Example:

app.use(session({
  secret: 'your-secret-key',
  resave: false,
  saveUninitialized: true,
  cookie: { secure: true, httpOnly: true }
}));

Want to learn more? Check out the OWASP Session Management Cheat Sheet