Stonington School District Awards 24×7 Security Operations Center to OculusIT

SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, June 23, 2022 – Stonington Public School District has selected OculusIT, higher education’s leading managed IT and cloud services company, for OculusIT EYE, a 24×7 Security Operations Center Service, to bolster their cybersecurity practices. With over 15 years of higher education IT experience, OculusIT has helped institutions 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 Stonington Public Schools with 24×7 Security Operations Center services with system and device threat information identification and remediation through this partnership. The scope of the engagement encompasses best practices and high-touch customer and managed services.

“While technology has helped digitally transform the educational experience and improve how the students learn, it has also significantly increased the risk of attacks for school districts nationwide,” said Jim Tandon, Vice President of Client Engagements at OculusIT. “OculusIT EYE will enable Stonington School District to continuously analyze, prioritize, and manage vulnerabilities to ensure students and their data stay safe.”

The OculusIT EYE solution will provide unmatched threat detection capabilities and a definitive response against cyberattacks, including incident monitoring, analysis, routing, handling, and reporting via security event monitoring, phone, email, ITSM ticketing, and account management support.  

A highly rated public school district in Pawcatuck, Connecticut, Stonington School District enrolls students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Comprised of four schools, Stonington School District serves over 2000 students from across the Stonington community, including the borough of Stonington, the villages of Pawcatuck, Lord’s Point, and Wequetequock, and the eastern halves of Mystic and Old Mystic. For further information, visit www.stoningtonschools.org.

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.