St. Catherine University Partners with OculusIT for Virtual CISO-as-a-Service

SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, November 28, 2022 – St. Catherine 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). With over 15 years of higher education IT experience, OculusIT has helped institutions with evolved SIEM, threat detection, and response solutions.

St. Catherine University will harness the benefits of OculusIT’s Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) 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.

“We’re thrilled St. Catherine University has expanded its existing relationship with us by adding managed security to its services portfolio with our virtual CISO services. OculusIT takes pride in remaining the university’s IT partner of choice,” said Jim Tandon, Vice President of Client Engagements at OculusIT.

OculusIT currently supports St. Catherine University with Banner® ERP Functional and Development Services.

A private Catholic university in Saint Paul, Minnesota, St. Catherine University was established in 1905. Known as the College of St. Catherine until 2009, St. Catherine University is one of the first institutions of higher learning specifically for women in the Midwest. Enrolling around 5000 students annually, the university offers bachelor’s degree programs for women, plus graduates, and associate programs for men and women. For further information, please visit www.stkate.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.