Blackfeet Community College Selects OculusIT for 24×7 SOC-as-a-Service

SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, December 5, 2022 – Blackfeet Community College, a private tribal land-grant community college on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana, has partnered with OculusIT for its 24×7 Security Operations Center Service – OculusIT EYE – to strengthen cybersecurity measures on campus. OculusIT will provide Blackfeet Community College 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.

“As campus IT networks remain one of the top targets for cyber and ransomware attacks, it is critical that institutions remain vigilant with their cybersecurity measures,” said Jim Tandon, Vice President of Client Engagements at OculusIT. “Our 24×7 Security Operations Center-as-a-Services incorporates all the essential features of a modern Security Operations Center and will help Blackfeet Community College keep pace with sophisticated cyberthreats and increasing data breaches.”

With over 15 years of higher education IT experience, OculusIT is higher education’s leading managed IT and cloud services company, and has helped institutions with an evolved SIEM, threat detection, and response solutions with real-time data enrichment, multifaceted analytics, complete incident management, and flexible deployment options.

The OculusIT EYE solution provides higher education institutions across North America with 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 are built by Higher Ed and only for Higher Ed.

Blackfeet Community College is a private tribal land-grant community college on the Blackfeet reservation in Browning, Montana. The college was designated a land-grant college along with 31 other tribal colleges in 1994. Established in 1974, Blackfeet Community College currently enrolls more than 2200 students offering them over 200 courses. For more information about Blackfeet Community College, please visit www.bfcc.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.