Manhattan School of Music Partners with OculusIT for Virtual CISO and IT Security Assessments

SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, November 29, 2022 – Manhattan School of Music has selected OculusIT, higher education’s leading managed IT and cloud services company, for high-touch Managed Security Services. The New York City-based private music conservatory will leverage Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) Services and IT Security Assessments to strengthen its cybersecurity posture. With over 15 years of higher education IT experience, OculusIT has helped higher education institutions with an evolved SIEM, threat detection, and response solutions.

The Virtual Chief Information Security Officer Services will provide the Manhattan School of Music with an expert, independent, and unbiased review of risk, compliance, and security methodologies, while ensuring the institution meets the latest GLBA requirements. These services paired with risk and security assessments will provide the institution with unmatched threat detection capabilities and a definitive response against cyberattacks, including incident monitoring, analysis, routing, handling, and reporting.

“We’ve tailored our virtual CISO services specifically for higher ed institutions to affordably access the IT leadership needed to run successful security programs,” said Jim Tandon, Vice President of Client Engagements at OculusIT. “We’re proud to support Manhattan School of Music with our managed security services offering and look forward to the profound impact we’ll be able to make on their institutional operations.”

Founded in 1917, the Manhattan School of Music is a private music conservatory in New York that offers bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in classical and jazz performance and composition and a bachelor’s in musical theatre. For more information about the Manhattan School of Music, please visit www.msmnyc.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 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.