Hesston College Selects OculusIT for 24×7 Security Operations Center

SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, October 20, 2022 – The Kansas-based private institution, Hesston College, has selected OculusIT, higher education’s leading managed IT and cloud services company, as its Security Operations Center. Hesston College will implement OculusIT EYE, a 24×7 Security Operations Center Service designed specifically for higher education, to strengthen its cybersecurity measures on campus.

OculusIT helps higher education institutions with an evolved SIEM, threat detection, and response solutions with real-time data enrichment, multifaceted analytics, complete incident management, and flexible deployment options.

Through this partnership, Hesston College will leverage OculusIT’s 24×7 Security Operations Center services with system and device threat information identification. The institution will also benefit from implementation of best security practices and OculusIT’s high-touch customer service.

“Fully managed 24×7 Security Operations Center solutions like OculusIT EYE have become quintessential to the security programs of campuses across the globe. We’re happy to partner with Hesston College to implement OculusIT EYE as the first line of defense against cyber threats,” says Jim Tandon, Vice President, Client Engagements for OculusIT.

For over 15 years, OculusIT’s 24×7 Security Operations Center solution has been providing 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.

Established in 1909, Hesston College is a 2-year private college in Hesston, Kansas. Hesston College offers 50 associate degree and transfer programs along with bachelor’s degrees in aviation, business management, engineering, and nursing. The college enrolls around 400 students representing 30 US states and 15 foreign countries. For more information about Hesston College, please visit www.hesston.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.