Case Study: Leading Healthcare Technology Company thwarts crypto-miner attacks with Waratek virtual patching

Healthcare Technology Company Uses New Strategy to Thwart Crypto-miner attack

Leading Healthcare Technology Company, a U.S.-based provider of IT and mobility applications for hospitals and health systems, needed to protect its PeopleSoft 9.0 environment from WebLogic deserialization attacks used by crypto-miners. The company was facing active exploitation of internet-facing servers and needed a faster, less disruptive security approach than vendor patches alone.

Waratek provided a virtual patching solution for the company’s Oracle ERP/PeopleSoft systems, blocking the exploit without changing source code or requiring downtime and regression testing. After a quick initial setup and demo validation, Waratek stopped subsequent deserialization attacks, automatically alerted the security team, and helped the customer improve protection while reducing annual support and maintenance costs.