Case Study: US Based Global Media Company modernizes and secures legacy Java applications with Waratek

US Based Global Media Company - Customer Case Study

US Based Global Media Company was running a legacy Java application on Tomcat 7.0.29 with Java SE 1.7.0u0, exposing it to hundreds of known JVM CVEs, Tomcat vulnerabilities, outdated libraries, and even unauthenticated remote JMX access. The company needed a way to modernize, harden, and protect its applications without rewriting code, and turned to Waratek’s runtime protection platform.

Waratek used its application security and virtual patching approach to move the app to a Java 8 host while keeping the guest application on Java 7, remediating years of JVM vulnerabilities without changing a single line of code. The result was 505 JVM CVEs reduced to 0, high-priority findings eliminated, false positives reduced, and operational gains from live patching without downtime; performance improved by nearly 7% in normal mode and overhead increased by less than 2.5% under attack.