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

SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, February 23, 2023 – Barry University, a private Catholic university in Miami Shores, Florida, has selected OculusIT, higher education’s leading managed IT and cloud services company, for its 24×7 Security Operations Center Service. OculusIT EYE, the SOCaaS platform designed exclusively for higher education, will empower the institution to think beyond traditional cybersecurity channels.

With over 15 years of higher education IT experience, OculusIT has helped colleges and universities 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 Barry University with fully staffed Security Operations Center services to identify and mitigate incoming threats around-the-clock.

“Our SOC team operates 24/7 to provide constant coverage to ensure that potential security incidents are addressed swiftly and effectively. With OculusIT EYE, we will leverage cutting-edge security technologies to monitor Barry University’s IT infrastructure, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, security information, and event management (SIEM) solutions,” said Jim Tandon, Vice President of Client Engagements for OculusIT.

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-as-a-Service from OculusIT was built by higher education professionals exclusively for higher education.

Established in 1940 by the Adrian Dominican Sisters, Barry University is a private Catholic university with its main campus in Miami Shores, Florida. The university currently enrolls over 7,000 students. One of the largest Catholic universities in the Southeast, Barry University offers more than 100 degree programs, from bachelor’s to doctorate, in six schools and two colleges. For more information about Barry University, please visit www.barry.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.