Barnard College

About the Client

Barnard College aims to provide the highest-quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research university.

As a college for women, Barnard embraces its responsibility to address issues of gender in all of their complexity and urgency. Located in the cosmopolitan environment of New York City and committed to diversity in its student body, faculty, and staff, Barnard prepares its graduates to flourish in different cultural surroundings in an increasingly interconnected world.

Challenge

Barnard College was looking to partner with an expert IT services company for security monitoring services at their college. OculusIT, with over 15 years of higher education IT experience, has helped numerous higher education institutions with an evolved SIEM, threat detection and response solution with real-time data enrichment, multifaceted analytics, complete incident management and flexible deployment options.

Solution

Through the partnership with OculusIT, Barnard College is able to leverage the OculusIT EYE™, the 24×7 Security Operations Center for systems and devices threat mitigation. The solution provides unmatched threat detection capabilities and a definitive response against cyber-attacks. This includes incident monitoring, analysis, routing, handling, and reporting via security event monitoring, phone/email and ITSM ticketing, and account management support.

OculusIT experts also provide firewall monitoring and management for Barnard College, including network security and architecture review, upgrades and enhancements with 24×7 monitoring and P1 support.

Major Success

• 60 days from signed contract to operational SOC.
• Multiple events reduced to small count of actionable incidents with OculusIT SIEM tool.
• One source of information for firewall monitoring, management and determining asset inventory with OculusIT.