Challenges
Valvoline Retail Services is accelerating expansion—opening two new locations every week on its way to 3,500 stores. But rapid growth exposed a critical issue: sensitive consumer data was sprawling across 1,200+ locations, with little clarity on ownership, usage, or protection.
Following a corporate divestiture and transition to a retail-only business, Valvoline faced:
- Unclassified and fragmented data across cloud and on-prem systems
- Manual, error-prone processes for privacy requests and audits
- Outdated identities and records, with 11M+ unused data entries and 1,600 dormant accounts
- Inefficient compliance workflows, requiring six separate tools
All of this created unnecessary costs, increased risk, and slowed the company’s ability to build a strong zero-trust and compliance posture at the scale their growth demanded.
Solution
Valvoline turned to Cyera for a modern, scalable approach to data security and governance. Unlike legacy tools that required heavy infrastructure, Cyera’s SaaS-based platform deployed in minutes, providing 98% coverage across structured and unstructured data environments.
Key capabilities included:
- Automated discovery and classification of sensitive data across the enterprise
- Identity context integration, surfacing risks like orphaned accounts and excessive access
- Prescriptive remediation guidance, supporting encryption, data minimization, and governance
- Open ecosystem integrations with Microsoft Purview, Abnormal AI, and DLP tools
Corey Kaemming, Senior Director & CISO, puts it simply:
“Cyera helped us move from ‘we think’ to risk-based decisions. Now the board sees facts, not guesses.”
Within just 30 days, Valvoline had a complete inventory of its data, enabling Security, Privacy, Data Engineering, and Legal teams to collaborate around a single source of truth.
Results
With Cyera, Valvoline has transformed data governance and security into a competitive advantage:
- Deployment in 10 minutes once access was granted
- Full data visibility within 30 days across structured and unstructured environments
- Faster, fact-based decision-making, strengthening board confidence
- Cross-functional alignment through a new data governance steering committee
- Proactive compliance and risk management, eliminating stale data and unused accounts
- Future-proof security posture, with Cyera intelligence powering AI workflows and real-time DLP controls
As Valvoline scales to 3,500+ locations, Cyera continues to be a core pillar of its “yes-with-guardrails” security culture - delivering the clarity and confidence needed to fuel growth at speed.
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