University of St. Francis Selects OculusIT for 24×7 Security Operations Center

SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, April 6, 2023 – The University of St. Francis, a private Franciscan university in Joliet, Illinois has selected OculusIT EYE, OculusIT’s 24×7 Security Operations Center-as-a-Service, to keep the institution up with the changing cybersecurity landscape.

Designed exclusively for education, OculusIT will provide the University of St. Francis with fully staffed Security Operations Center services to help them improve their process including threat monitoring and response time. OculusIT EYE provides institutions 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.

“Finding an affordable and efficient cybersecurity solution can be a challenge for higher education institutions. Our OculusIT EYE services stand affordable and provide real-time detection and advanced mitigation strategies, to stop incoming threats before they pose a risk to an institution’s cybersecurity,” said Jim Tandon, Vice President of Client Engagements at OculusIT.

With more than 15 years of higher education IT experience, OculusIT helps institutions of all types and sizes with an evolved SIEM, threat detection, and response solutions with real-time data enrichment, multifaceted analytics, complete incident management, and flexible deployment options. OculusIT EYE, the 24×7 SOC-as-a-Service from OculusIT, was built by higher education professionals exclusively for higher education.

The University of St. Francis is a private Franciscan university with its main campus in Joliet, Illinois. It enrolls more than 3,900 students at locations throughout the country with more than 1,300 students at its main campus. The University also offers a Physician Assistant program at a second campus site in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information about the University of St. Francis, please visit https://www.stfrancis.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.