University of the Pacific Partners with OculusIT for 24×7 Security Operations Center

SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, December 1, 2022 – University of the Pacific has selected OculusIT, higher education’s leading managed IT and cloud services company, for its 24×7 Security Operations Center Service – OculusIT EYE – to remodel its cybersecurity posture. 

With over 15 years of higher education IT experience, OculusIT has helped colleges and universities across North America 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 to the University of the Pacific with fully staffed Security Operations Center services to identify and mitigate incoming threats 24/7.  

“OculusIT EYE, our 24×7 Security Operations Center, will enable the University of the Pacific to improve its cybersecurity, meet compliance requirements, detect threats in real-time, and cost-effectively reduce incoming risks,” said Jim Tandon, Vice President of Client Engagements, OculusIT.  

The OculusIT EYE solution provides higher education institutions 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. The 24×7 SOC-as-a-Service from OculusIT was built by higher education professionals exclusively for higher education. 

Enrolling over 6000 students, the University of the Pacific, or UOP, is a private Methodist-affiliated university with its primary campus in Stockton, California, and graduate campuses in Sacramento and San Francisco. Besides being a liberal arts college and graduate school, UOP has schools of business, dentistry, education, international studies, law, engineering, music, pharmacy, and health sciences. For more information about the University of the Pacific, please visit www.pacific.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.