Top takeaways → How Sanmina scaled and streamlined compliance across multiple locations with Strike Graph

“Strike Graph improved Sanmina's security compliance and risk management across 23 countries, multiple locations, and various frameworks.” said Sanmina’s Head of Security. “By centralizing operations and replacing manual tracking, it has significantly simplified compliance, enhanced security, and improved our risk matrix documentation.”

• Completed 5 CMMC assessments with Strike Graph across multiple plants
• Centralized 320+ objectives with federated evidence collection across global sites
• Standardized compliance processes for CMMC, TISAX, NIS2, and SOC 2
• Replaced manual, spreadsheet-based compliance with automation
• Improved visibility and audit readiness through dashboards and reporting
• Moving toward NIST 800-171 as a corporate standard
  
  

Spreadsheets couldn’t keep up with the scale of Sanmina’s global compliance needs

Sanmina Corporation (Nasdaq: SANM) is a global leader in integrated manufacturing solutions and a recognized technology innovator in the Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) market. The company provides end-to-end manufacturing for leading OEMs across numerous sectors, including communications, defense and aerospace, medical, and automotive. Sanmina operates over 60 facilities worldwide and employs more than 32,000 people.

With this global footprint, Sanmina must meet a range of compliance standards, including CMMC, TISAX, NIS2, and SOC 2, across its diverse manufacturing network.

Before Strike Graph, the company managed compliance from a central spreadsheet, distributing copies to each manufacturing location. This manual process led to numerous challenges in maintaining consistency, collecting evidence, and reporting progress across plants.

“We needed to move away from outdated, inefficient compliance managed through Excel,” said the Head of Security. “CMMC implementations were managed centrally via an overly complex spreadsheet that was copied and distributed to each location. It was time for a better way.”

Replacing spreadsheets with scalable enterprise compliance

Sanmina discovered Strike Graph and knew immediately it was the right fit. Rather than building a solution in-house, they chose Strike Graph to support TISAX and CMMC initiatives and have since expanded their program to include NIS2 and SOC 2.

Strike Graph’s enterprise workspace functionality allows the corporate compliance team to centrally define, manage, and distribute security controls—while empowering each plant to contribute its own evidence locally.

“Using Strike Graph’s Enterprise workspace functionality, we’re able to control and publish over 90% of our compliance content from a central workspace out to our subsidiaries—saving a tremendous amount of time and effort, and ensuring accuracy and up-to-date security practices,” said the Head of Security.

Enterprise compliance made scalable through centralized management

With Strike Graph, Sanmina established a centralized security posture that could easily scale across its global manufacturing network.

• Strike Graph’s centralized repository makes it easy to manage and distribute risks, controls, and evidence across multiple locations, whether you’re utilizing the cross-framework mappings or adding custom controls.
  
• Dashboards and reports provide real-time visibility into company-wide goals and readiness
  
• Plant leaders only need to attach relevant evidence specific to their location
  
• Strike Graph’s modern, intuitive UI enables fast onboarding and high adoption across teams
  
  

“I like the software's simplicity; it’s intuitive and user-friendly,” said Sanmina’s IT Regulatory Compliance Software Analyst.

“Having distributed workspaces allows each of our plants to see their progress while senior management gets the overall snapshot of our entire compliance posture,” added the Head of Security. “We look forward to further improving our process with Strike Graph’s state-of-the-art AI technology and automation workflows.”

Consistent CMMC success with streamlined reporting

Sanmina’s CMMC program has scaled successfully across its global footprint—with every assessment resulting in a pass.

"Strike Graph gave us the confidence to successfully complete multiple CMMC assessments across our facilities," said Sanmina’s Head of Security. "We've used Strike Graph for five CMMC assessments and passed all five. The platform was instrumental in helping us collect, organize, and evaluate over 600 artifacts of evidence per plant—something I can't imagine doing without Strike Graph. Our C3PAO assessors consistently praised our evidence collection and organization, which directly contributed to our assessment success and positioned us to compete for critical DoD contracts."

Strike Graph features, such as integrated POA&M and SPRS score management, provide an added bonus for organizations beginning their CMMC journey and a head start on reporting and audit preparation.

“Sanmina has an outstanding team of project managers who have fully embraced CMMC concepts, leading our plants in adopting these efforts,” said the Head of Security.

Partnering for long-term compliance success

Beyond technology, Sanmina values Strike Graph’s collaborative approach and responsive support.

“Sanmina has been more than a customer—they’ve been a true collaborator,” said Customer Success Manager Stephanie Lorraine. “Their feedback has helped us refine and enhance our platform, from improving enterprise workflows to guiding new feature development.”

The Sanmina team echoes the sentiment. “The partnership with the Strike Graph team has been great,” added the Head of Security. “From a smooth onboarding experience to achieving our CMMC certifications, we appreciate how quickly the product team has built the enterprise functionality we needed for compliance across our organization.”

What’s next: Aligning global operations under a single compliance standard

Sanmina continues to expand its compliance program across additional plants, moving toward a unified corporate compliance standard.

“We have more plants to add, but that aligns with the company’s philosophy,” said the VP of IT. “We invested in technology, so now we aim for NIST 800-171 to be our corporate standard.”

He also offered advice to other organizations:
“Invest in your staff—the return on that investment might just be a CMMC certification. And invest in a GRC solution that understands CMMC and your mission. We use Strike Graph, and it helps us collect, store, and maintain evidence in a way that ensures smooth assessments.”