How Automation Saves Time and Keeps Data Secure at Cintas

At Cintas, data security carries the same weight it does for any large enterprise: the organization's most sensitive information and intellectual property live within the data it manages every day. For Jacob Lorz, Vice President of Information Technology and CISO, the goal was to run a full discovery effort across that data — without doing it by hand.

CHALLENGE

A Manual Discovery Effort Would Have Taken Thousands of Hours

Classifying data correctly requires understanding its sensitivity, its type, and who should have access to it — work that, done manually across an organization the size of Cintas, would have consumed thousands and thousands of hours of someone's time reviewing data one piece at a time.

SOLUTION

Classifying Over a Petabyte of Data, Correctly, at Scale

Varonis has helped Cintas identify and classify more than a petabyte of data based on its actual sensitivity and type — regardless of how an end user might have labeled a document themselves. Where manual tagging can be inconsistent or simply wrong, Varonis independently verifies and correctly categorizes the data.

Regardless of what the end user might classify a document as, Varonis will go in and correctly categorize and classify it.

That accuracy, achieved without manual review, is what turned a project that would have taken thousands of hours into something Lorz's team could hand off almost entirely to automation.

RESULTS

Confidence in the Data, Freedom for the Team

Beyond classification, Cintas leverages Varonis' managed services to enrich and normalize more than a billion events per month, with Varonis' team working alongside Lorz's internal staff to triage and investigate the alerts tied to that activity.

Varonis gives me the confidence that we are at the right place for the sensitive data that we have. It fits in nicely into our security stack. It helps to give me the confidence that I need that our data is correctly permissioned.

For Lorz, the partnership has matured Cintas' broader security program — freeing up the time and brainpower his team once spent on manual review for the work that genuinely requires human judgment, and letting him rest easier about the organization's data.