Willamette University Partners with OculusIT for 24×7 Security Operations Center

SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, October 13, 2022 – Willamette University has partnered with OculusIT, higher education’s leading managed IT and cloud services company, for OculusIT EYE, a 24×7 Security Operations Center Service, 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.

OculusIT will provide Willamette University with 24×7 Security Operations Center services with system and device threat information identification 24×7 through this partnership. The scope of the engagement encompasses best practices and high-touch customer service.

“Around-the-clock monitoring with OculusIT EYE is a great solution for Willamette University and other Higher Ed Institutions as it will help their team bridge security gaps, reinforce threat response, and protect sensitive data.” says Jim Tandon, Vice President, Client Engagements.

The OculusIT EYE solution provides higher education institutions across North America with unmatched threat detection capabilities and a definitive response against cyberattacks, including incident monitoring, analysis, routing, handling, and reporting through security event monitoring, phone, email, ITSM ticketing, and account management support. The 24×7 SOC services from OculusIT is built by Higher Ed and only for Higher Ed.

Founded in 1842, Willamette University is a private liberal arts college with locations in Portland and Salem, Oregon. The oldest college in the Western United States, Willamette University, enrolls around 2100 students in graduate and undergraduate programs. For more information about Willamette University, please visit www.willamette.edu.

OculusIT is a global and all-inclusive managed IT, security, and cloud services company dedicated to serving the education industry. Our strategy is to offer the most cost-effective and responsive partnership that provides flexibility and nimbleness in response to economic changes and directly contributes to higher education’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.