Ripon College Selects OculusIT for Managed Security Services, including 24×7 SOCaaS, vCISO, and Compliance Assessments

SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, October 27, 2022 – Ripon College has selected OculusIT, higher education’s leading managed IT and cloud services company, for high-touch Managed Security Services. The private liberal arts college based out of Ripon, Wisconsin, will leverage OculusIT’s 24×7 Security Operations Center-as-a-Service (SOCaaS), virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) Services, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) Risk and Compliance Assessment Services.  

OculusIT EYE, the 24×7 Security Operations Center designed exclusively for education, will empower Ripon College to mitigate incoming cyber threats while maintaining industry best practices for cybersecurity. The virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) Services will provide Ripon College with expert leadership from OculusIT, with independent and unbiased reviews of risk, compliance, and security methodologies, ensuring the institution meets the latest GLBA requirements.  

“As an established managed security services provider in the higher education domain, OculusIT is geared up to support Ripon College with around-the-clock monitoring, management, and response to advanced threats, risks, and compliance needs,” said Jim Tandon, Vice President of Client Engagements at OculusIT.  

OculusIT’s bundled Managed Security Services will provide the institution with unmatched threat detection capabilities and a definitive response against cyberattacks, including incident monitoring, analysis, routing, handling, and reporting.

Ripon College is a four-year private liberal arts college in Ripon, Wisconsin. Founded in 1851, the college enrolls over 800 students representing 14 nations and 33 states. The college offers its students 32 majors, a variety of pre-professional advising options, and the choice to self-design a major. For more information about Ripon College, please visit www.ripon.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.