Case Study: Sanmina Corporation achieves a secure cloud-first strategy and faster Google G Suite performance with Zscaler

Cutting-edge Fortune 500 OEM manufacturer relies on Zscaler to securely advance its cloud-first strategy

Sanmina, a Fortune 500 OEM headquartered in Silicon Valley with roughly 45,000 employees and 60 manufacturing sites worldwide, pursued a cloud-first transformation—embracing Google G Suite and migrating critical manufacturing and supply‑chain apps to the cloud. That shift exposed gaps in its legacy perimeter-based security: more than 6,000 mobile users were bypassing protections, URL filtering was ineffective, users faced repeated authentications, and IT struggled with distributed policy management.

By deploying Zscaler’s cloud-native security (Zscaler Internet Access and Zscaler for Google G Suite), Sanmina gained end-to-end inspection (including SSL), centralized policy enforcement, and far stronger URL and threat protection—blocking an order-of-magnitude more malicious sites. The result: improved performance and visibility, fewer user authentications, simplified global administration, and a scalable platform that supports SD‑WAN and secure remote access initiatives.

Sanmina Corporation

Manesh Patel

Chief Information Officer