Case Study: Global Financial Services Institution achieves instant application modernization and virtual patching with Waratek

Saving Time and Costs with Virtual Patching and Legacy Application Modernizing

Global Financial Services Institution, a global financial institution, needed a way to secure and modernize mission-critical Java web applications without making code changes. The organization evaluated Waratek’s virtualization-based Application Security Platform to protect full application stacks, including third-party components, while addressing legacy, current, and emerging vulnerabilities.

Waratek implemented virtual patching and application modernization by wrapping the legacy Java 7 applications in a Java Runtime Container on top of Java 8, with no code changes and deployment in under 30 minutes. The result was full security and functional test success, zero false positives, and protection against demonstrated attacks such as command injection, XSS, path traversal, and deserialization flaws, while improving normal performance by nearly 7% and reducing estimated costs by about $2.5M.