Vanguard Academy Public Charter School Selects OculusIT for 24×7 Security Operations Center

SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, December 27, 2022 – Vanguard Academy Public Charter School, the second largest charter district in south Texas, has selected OculusIT, education’s leading managed IT and cloud services company, as its Security Operations Center. Vanguard Academy will implement OculusIT EYE, a 24×7 Security Operations Center Service designed specifically for education, to improve its cybersecurity resilience.  

 OculusIT helps schools with an evolved SIEM, threat detection, and response solutions with real-time data enrichment, multifaceted analytics, complete incident management, and flexible deployment options. 

Through this partnership, Vanguard Academy will leverage OculusIT’s 24×7 Security Operations Center services with system and device threat information identification. The institution will also benefit from implementing best security practices and OculusIT’s high-touch customer service.   

“With the advancement in technology, SOC has become a game changer for educational institutions that need additional resources, expertise, or time to focus on their security posture. Vanguard Academy will leverage our Security Operations Center services to monitor, analyze, and mitigate threats within their IT environment,” says Jim Tandon, Vice President, Client Engagement for OculusIT.  

For over 15 years, OculusIT’s 24×7 Security Operations Center solution has been providing educational institutions across North America 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.  

Vanguard Academy is the largest community-based school system and the second-largest charter district in south Texas, founded on sound morals, values, and principles. Among the area’s most prominent and forward-looking school systems, the key driving factors behind Vanguard Academy are innovation, tenacity, vision, and equity. For more information about Vanguard Academy, please visit www.vanguardacademy.education

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.