Sarah Cecchetti
- Co-founded IDPro, the professional association for identity practitioners
- Co-author of NIST SP 800-63-3C, the federation and assertions volume of the Digital Identity Guidelines
- Led product for Amazon Cognito at AWS
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.
Profile built from public standards, association, and employer records.
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 assurance levels are the vocabulary regulators and enterprises use to talk about how strongly an identity is proofed and authenticated. See Amazon Cognito, the authorization guides, and the career path guides.
Podcasts
- Agentic AI and the Authorization Gap No One Closed with Geoffrey Mattson, CEO of SecureAuth · Hybrid Identity Protection Podcast · 2026-06-09
- Securing Non-Human Identities in the Age of Agentic AI with Sarah Cecchetti, Director of Product Management at Semperis · Hybrid Identity Protection Podcast · 2026-04-28
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