# Co-founder, IDPro

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Last updated: 2026-09-20
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## Bio

Sarah Cecchetti co-founded IDPro and co-authored NIST SP 800-63-3C, the federation volume of the Digital Identity Guidelines. At AWS she led product for Amazon Cognito and worked on the open-sourcing of the Cedar policy language. She has contributed to standards work at the IETF, OpenID Foundation, and W3C.

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## Where their work shows up

Identity had practitioners long before it had a profession. IDPro gave the field a body of knowledge, a certification, and a place where the person running access reviews at a hospital and the person writing a federation spec are treated as the same discipline. On the standards side, [NIST 800-63](https://startwithidentity.com/regulations/) assurance levels are the vocabulary regulators and enterprises use to talk about how strongly an identity is proofed and authenticated. See [Amazon Cognito](https://startwithidentity.com/vendors/ciam/amazon-cognito/), the [authorization guides](https://startwithidentity.com/guides/authorization/), and the [career path guides](https://startwithidentity.com/guides/career/iam-career-paths/).