Case Study: Large US Based Company modernizes critical applications and eliminates Java CVEs with Waratek

Modernizing out-of-date, mission critical applications without code changes

Large US Based Company, a large US institution, needed to modernize and secure a mission-critical application running on an end-of-support Java Runtime Environment and an outdated app server, without changing any code. The aging stack had accumulated a significant backlog of vulnerabilities, creating compliance, security, and operational risk.

Waratek’s virtualization-based Application Security Platform was deployed as a JAR agent to encapsulate the application stack, instantly upgrade it to Java 8, and virtually remediate Severe, High, and Medium Java CVEs without source code changes. Waratek improved app performance by up to 9% in normal operation, cut overall overhead by 6.9%, and reduced attack-time overhead to 2.4%, while also enabling live patching and continuous protection.