Government Security News 2016 Digital Yearbook

a huge cost and operational burden on the business,
while impacting the bank’s agility and customer responsiveness.
The Bank integrated Waratek’s security technology
into their application hosting platform. This resolved
the Java patching issue, as well as remediated other
issues such as SQL Injection attacks, in a manner that
is transparent to the applications. The net result was a
dramatic reduction and avoidance of security patching
costs, while improving security and preserving the agility
of the organization.
The centralized virtual patching capabilities provided
by Waratek across hundreds of applications eliminated
the need for the bank’s application development to
upgrade to new versions of Java along with the associated
testing and deployment activities. This saves time
and money, and reduces business impact by minimising
application downtime. It also enables the bank to
focus on improving its applications and infrastructure to
better serve customers and shareholders. With Waratek,
the bank has a solution to a difficult security problem
which significantly reduces its risk and exposure to data
breaches.
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