Northeastern State University Partners with OculusIT for Virtual CISO-as-a-Service and GLBA Risk and Compliance Assessment Services

SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, January 5, 2023 – Northeastern State University has expanded its existing managed services relationship with OculusIT, higher education’s leading managed IT and cloud services company, to include a virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) and GLBA risk and compliance assessment services. With over 15 years of higher education IT experience, OculusIT has helped colleges and universities across the country transform their IT operations to drive student and institutional success.

Northeastern State University will leverage OculusIT’s virtual Chief Information Security Officer services for expert, independent, and unbiased review of risk, compliance, and security methodologies, along with meeting the latest GLBA requirements. The vCISO will serve as an information security liaison to auditors, assessors, and third parties and oversee policy development and recommendations with NIST, SANS, ISACA, and ISC2 requirements while maintaining industry best practices and a cybersecurity roadmap with strategic guidance to the institution.

OculusIT’s GLBA assessment services will detect opportunities to minimize risks for operations, fraud, reputation compliance, and technologies within Northeastern State University, so that institutional and constituent data are protected and compliant with federal law.

“We take immense pride in announcing that Northeastern State University has chosen to add our virtual CISO and GLBA risk and compliance assessment services to the gamut of services we’re offering to them currently. We look forward to improving collaboration across security and IT operations teams,” said Jim Tandon, Vice President of Client Engagements at OculusIT.

Currently, OculusIT supports Northeastern State University with OculusIT Eye, a 24×7 Security Operations Center for real-time threat detection, as well as Banner® ERP DBA, Functional, and Application Monitoring services.

Established in 1909, Northeastern State University is a public university with its main campus in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The oldest university in Oklahoma, Northeastern State University, has two other campuses: Muskogee and Broken Arrow. The university offers many courses focused on Native American linguistics, including Cherokee language education as a major. For further information, please visit www.nsuok.edu.

OculusIT is a global and 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.