Case Study: Sanmina Corporation achieves improved security, increased profitability, and faster M&A with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange

Sanmina Revs Up Security, Profitability & M&A Strategies with Zero Trust for Users and Workloads

Sanmina, a global electronics manufacturing solutions provider headquartered in San Jose with 35,000 employees across 20 countries, needed to move beyond legacy VPNs as part of its cloud and Industry 4.0 transformation. The company sought a perimeter-less access model to reduce attack surfaces, secure application access, and support rapid M&A and manufacturing operations without the limitations and risks of traditional VPN technology.

Sanmina adopted Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange with Zscaler Private Access (ZPA), connecting users to applications (not networks), inspecting encrypted traffic, and enforcing least‑privileged access via lightweight client and app connectors. The change eliminated attack surfaces, improved performance and user experience, cut security update times from days to minutes, simplified global administration, accelerated M&A onboarding, strengthened IT/OT protection, and delivered a scalable platform for ongoing security innovation.

Sanmina Corporation

Matt Ramberg

VP of Information Security