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    Hi everyone, we appreciate the interest surrounding this idea, however we want to be open that we're unable to extend our log-out time past 60 minutes. Xero hold a lot of sensitive information including bank data and we're required to be as secure as online banking.
    Any session information running on a web browser can potentially be stolen. If the session does not time out. You then have an infinitely long vulnerability window to session hijacking. Our best option is to keep a tight expiration window on the session cookie, and regenerate them frequently. Even setting a long timeout doesn't help with this - too long a timeout will greatly increase the risk of invasion or potentially jeopardise your personal data and the safety and integrity of the Xero application itself. This is why we maintain control of this.
    If we detect there's been no activity on a page (e.g…

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    Sean Lynch commented  · 

    I don't know about anyone else, but none of our team ever receives the inactivity prompt you mention. We just get logged out. I don't appreciate the team's time wasted having to log in 8 times a day. As mentioned by many before me, this one approach fits all to cyber security is a lazy approach and infuriates many. Xero can and should do better here.