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Hardening Risky Token-Based Sessions

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Tell me about a time you identified a meaningful security risk in how session tokens or authentication were being used, and you had to drive changes across engineering teams to reduce that risk without slowing delivery too much. What was the situation, what tradeoffs did you make, and what happened in the end?