The Person Behind Both Sides of Kyveras

I've spent two decades in security and IT operations leadership, and started Kyveras to bring that experience to companies too early-stage for a full security team, or too lean for a full-time IT lead.

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Charlie Leagra, Founder of Kyveras

Charlie LeagraCISSP, CISM, Lean Six Sigma, ITIL · Founder, Kyveras

“One standard on both sides: the work gets built around your business, never the other way around.”

Why Kyveras Exists

I kept watching the same thing happen from two different angles: a startup stalls for months on a security questionnaire nobody on the team can answer, or a lean team quietly loses hours every week to manual work nobody's had time to fix.

I'm Charlie Leagra, CISSP, CISM, Lean Six Sigma, and ITIL certified. Before Kyveras, I spent more than 20 years in IT operations and cybersecurity leadership, most of it figuring out how to make security and process requirements actually workable for the teams that had to live with them.

I started Kyveras because both of those problems kept showing up at the same kinds of companies: they needed SOC 2 or ISO 27001 to close a deal but couldn't justify a full-time CISO yet, or they were losing hours to manual process with nobody senior enough to fix it. So I work directly with founders and teams (not through a sales layer, not through a junior associate) on whichever problem is actually costing them right now.

I turn down engagements that would mean piling on process nobody needs just to look thorough. If something doesn't serve your business or your actual risk, I don't recommend it. That's not a differentiator I invented for marketing. It's just how I'd want it done if I were the founder writing the check.

How I Work

  • Clarity

    You get a plain answer to why something matters, not a page number in a framework document.

  • Balance

    Rigorous enough to hold up under real scrutiny, light enough that it doesn't compete with your roadmap for your team's time.

  • Pragmatism

    Everything I recommend has a reason tied to your actual business, not a checklist entry.

  • Empowerment

    I document and train as I go, so your team can run this without me once we're done. That's the goal, not a risk to my repeat business.

  • Partnership

    I work inside your team's workflow, not as an outside authority handing down requirements.

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