Loyola University New Orleans Selects OculusIT for 24×7 Security Operations Center-as-a-Service

SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, March 10, 2022 — Loyola University New Orleans, has partnered with OculusIT, higher education’s leading managed IT and cloud services company, for 24×7 Security Operations Center Services to bolster its cybersecurity practices. With over 15 years of higher education IT experience, OculusIT has helped higher education institutions with an evolved SIEM, threat detection, and response solutions with real-time data enrichment, multifaceted analytics, complete incident management, and flexible deployment options.

Through this partnership, Loyola University New Orleans will leverage OculusIT EYE™, the 24×7 Security Operations Center for systems and devices threat mitigation, combining a robust and highly-scalable Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system along with a 24×7 Service Desk solution.

OculusIT provides its clients with differentiated support services for timely resolution of queries, ensuring operational continuity, and a dedicated project manager to oversee the onboarding and transition of support service.

Driven by a dedicated cybersecurity team, the OculusIT EYE solution will bring unmatched visibility into threat detection and actionable insights in real-time to help cut down the response time against cyberattacks. Through this new partnership, the scope of 24×7 Security Operations Center-as-a-Service offered to Loyola University New Orleans includes incident monitoring, analysis, routing, handling, and reporting.

“Now more than ever, it is critically important to protect higher ed institutions in this constantly evolving threat landscape. By leveraging our OculusIT EYE services, Loyola University New Orleans will proactively react to emerging cyber threats and vulnerabilities,” said Joe Redwine, President of OculusIT. “We’re looking forward to supporting their team with around-the-clock defensive strategies and strengthening their overall security,” he further added.

Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, Loyola University New Orleans is a private Jesuit university based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The university currently enrolls over 5000 students, including 3000 undergraduates. Loyola University New Orleans offers specialized programs under liberal arts, social, and physical sciences. For more information about Loyola University New Orleans, please visit www.loyno.edu.

OculusIT is a global, all-inclusive managed IT, security, and cloud services company dedicated to serving the education industry. Our strategy is to offer a highly cost-effective and responsive partnership that provides flexibility and nimbleness in response to economic changes and directly contributes to your institution’s ability to provide and maintain the highest quality IT services. OculusIT grows with you, adapts to you, and ensures consistency and continuity of service with a partnership, service philosophy, and cost savings unparalleled in the higher education IT services domain. Learn more at www.oculusit.com.