Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
Sarah Cecchetti is a seasoned technology executive driving product management at Semperis. At AWS, she led Amazon Cognito to triple-digit growth as Head of Product and led the open-sourcing of Cedar, a new access management language. She co-founded IDPro and co-authored NIST SP 800-63-3C Digital Identity Guidelines. Sarah has designed secure identity systems for corporate clients as well as US and Canadian governments and is recognized as a top identity professional by Okta Ventures and OWI. She’s a keynote speaker at global identity conferences like Identiverse and Authenticate.
Sarah runs a team of product managers working on disaster recovery for identity ecosystems.
Identiverse Conference 2024 ● Keynote RSA Conference 2024 ● Permissions: Centralized or Decentralized? Both! Authenticate Conference 2022 ● Keynote: Earning Trust in Identity at Scale Re:Invent 2021 ● Leadership Session: Continuous Security Improvements https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu7D2J7-Ft8 Identiverse 2021 ● Keynote: Fostering Identity Excellence https://video.engageidentity.com/keynote.mp4 RSA Conference 2021 ● Securing Direct to Consumer Identity Strategy Executive Women's Forum 2020 ● Workshop on Cloud Identity Re:Invent 2019 ● Leadership session: AWS Identity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqAGpeFUP9g&t=1215s ITSPmagazine Cyber Society Podcast https://soundcloud.com/itspmagazine/sarah-squire-ping-identity-rsac2018 RSA Conference 2018 https://www.rsaconference.com/speakers/sarah-squire ● “No You May Not Have a Pony”—The Art of the Possible in Secure IAM Design ● IDPro: How a Professional Organization will Change the Future of Identity ● RSAC TV: Identity in Ten Hundred Words InfoSec World 2018 ● GDPR-Friendly Best Practices for IT Architects & Implementers Hanselminutes Podcast - Fresh Air for Developers https://www.hanselminutes.com/621/developing-online-identity-with-sarah-squire Cloud Identity Summit 2017: ● Measuring Authentication: Vectors of Trust ● Anatomy of a Rockstar Identity Team ● Agile Project Management for Agile Identity ● Intelligent Identity Starts with Intelligent Identity Professionals RSA Conference 2017: ● Measuring Authentication: NIST 800-63 and Vectors of Trust https://youtu.be/lYdfOSCx8Vg Highlighted as "exemplary submission" Sarah's session rating: 4.63 Average RSAC session rating: 4.14 BSides Seattle 2017: ● Anonymity on the Internet Cloud Identity Summit 2016: ● So You Think You Can Logout ● Identity in Ten Hundred Words
I manage a team which spans security and identity experts, engineers, product, and marketing. We do new product development and work on identity and security standards in the IETF, OIDF, W3C, Trusted Computing Group, and more.
Cedar is an open-source language and SDK that enables authoring and evaluation, of secure, human-readable, computer-analyzable access management policies. Sarah leads a multi-company community which collaboratively develops and maintains the language. Sarah's responsibilities include vision, strategy, marketing, technical operations, roadmap, community development, education, and leadership.
Amazon Cognito is one of the world's largest multi-tenant Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) platforms - scaling to millions of users per customer. Sarah managed a hybrid team with responsibilities for product vision and strategy, marketing, pricing, solution architecture, roadmap prioritization, tactical implementation, technical operations, and scalable product education.
Sarah's responsibilities included product strategy and vision, pricing, integration with AWS strategy, roadmap prioritization, and technical operations.