{"id":2451,"date":"2026-06-11T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=2451"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:48:14","password":"","slug":"why-is-automatic-logout-required","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/why-is-automatic-logout-required\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is automatic logout required?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Automatic session logout helps <strong>SMS Gateway Center<\/strong> meet common security and compliance expectations, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reducing exposure when a user forgets to log out<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Limiting misuse of an unattended or unlocked session<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supporting security assessments that require enforced session expiry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aligning with best practices for web application session management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This applies to the&nbsp;web user panel. API access using API keys follows separate authentication rules and is not affected by browser session idle timeout in the same way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Related articles<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/why-does-sms-gateway-center-automatically-log-me-out\/\">Why Does SMS Gateway Center Automatically Log Me Out?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/what-is-the-difference-between-idle-timeout-and-maximum-session-lifetime\/\">What is the difference between idle timeout and maximum session lifetime?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/what-counts-as-activity-that-keeps-my-session-alive\/\">What counts as activity that keeps my session alive?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/what-happens-when-my-session-expires\/\">What happens when my session expires?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/i-was-actively-working-why-was-i-still-logged-out\/\">I was actively working \u2013 why was I still logged out?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automatic session logout helps SMS Gateway Center meet common security and compliance expectations, including: This applies to the&nbsp;web user panel. API access using API keys follows separate authentication rules and is not affected by browser session idle timeout in the same way. Related articles: Why Does SMS Gateway Center Automatically Log Me Out? What is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[1968],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2451","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-session-management"],"year_month":"2026-06","word_count":125,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin","author_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Session Management","term_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb-cat\/session-management\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}