Log out after N minutes of inactivity: or not

Maybe I am nit-picky, however ... If I select to log me out of the system, making it harder for someone who might steal my MacBook to harvest data from it, as long as I leave the screen in the upright position, I will be back at the login prompt in "N" minutes.
If however I close the screen, and I believe this puts the MacBook into some sort of sleep staate, then after "N" minutes plus, when I lift the screen, the MacBook zooms back to life in the previous state and obviuously still logged in.
What did I miss to be able to cause mcBook to log-off, no matter what, after ten minutes of inactivity?

When you close the screen, the computer/hard drive does go to sleep. This is protection for your hard drive since the computer is usually going to be moved or is moved with the screen closed while the computer is on - or it should only be moved this way.
You can require your login password to wake the computer from sleep or screen saver.

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