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Log All user access (IP,Username,Time ,web request etc..).
If you do this ,then someday when your application /site is down/hacked you can trace the culprit and check what went wrong.
You may ask , if the user uses an proxy , Though it will help. As "what happened" is logged and the exploit can be fixed more easily.
