OculusIT and Seceon Expand 24/7 Cybersecurity Protection for Higher Education

Enhanced Security Operations Center combines higher-education expertise with AI-powered detection and response to help lean IT teams identify, contain, and remediate threats faster.

CHICAGO, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Higher education institutions and medical universities face unprecedented pressure to keep their campuses safe and secure from cyberattacks and data breaches. To address this, OculusIT has selected Seceon, a leader in automated real-time, AI-powered threat detection and response, to enhance its SOC service.

This enhanced service enables OculusIT SOC analysts to identify and mitigate threats in real time via the Seceon platform, operating from OculusIT's unified Command Center alongside its NOC to provide integrated visibility across network, endpoint, identity, cloud, and application layers.

"Cybersecurity threats are one of the most significant challenges facing higher education today, and many institutions lack the skills and resources to address threats that can disrupt the learning environment, compromise sensitive data, and undermine trust across the campus community," said Mark Hipp, CEO of OculusIT. "Our partnership with Seceon makes our SOC smarter, faster and more automated, enabling detection and response in as little as 90 seconds with 24/7 protection. With the average cost of an education sector data breach reaching $4.15 million, the time for institutions to act is now, not after a breach disrupts learning and damages an institution's brand."

"OculusIT has become a true extension of our IT team, providing enterprise-grade security monitoring and vCISO guidance that would otherwise require significant resources to build in-house," said Kimberley Jones, Ph.D., Vice President of Information Technology Services and CIO at Morehouse College. "With the addition of the new SOC capabilities, their responsiveness and expertise have strengthened our security posture. Their team has been a steady partner over the years, and we are excited to see their continued investments in securing colleges and universities."

The Seceon partnership delivers enhancements to the existing OculusIT SOC capability, including:

Agentic AI-Powered AutoSOC: Leverages 800+ data sources and 2.4 trillion+ daily events to autonomously correlate, investigate, prioritize, and respond to threats-augmenting analysts with continuous AI-driven operations.

Accelerated Response: Automated threat containment in under 90 seconds via automated playbooks, reducing response times from hours to seconds, with full deployment in 2 weeks.

Reduced Alert Fatigue: AI-driven correlation and higher-education-focused threat models reducing false positives and analyst workload, letting SOC teams focus on high-priority threats.

Compliance Automation: Continuous compliance monitoring and reporting aligned with FERPA, GLBA, HIPAA, and NIST 800-171/CMMC, with single-pane view for streamlined audit readiness.

Higher education is a dedicated focus area for Seceon - trusted by 100+ institutions nationwide facing over 2,300 attacks per week. "Higher education sits at a dangerous intersection where networks are built for openness, budgets are built for scarcity, and attackers who know both," said Chandra S. Pandey, Founder and CEO of Seceon. "The partnership with OculusIT is giving academic institutions something they rarely have: next-generation security that respects how open, decentralized campus networks actually work. That's the gap Seceon was built to close - automated detection, remediation, and compliance at a scale lean IT teams can actually sustain."

Want to learn more? Meet OculusIT and Seceon at booth #243, EDUCAUSE 2026, Denver, September 29-October 2, or visit www.oculusit.com/educause2026

About OculusIT
More than 300 leading colleges and universities have trusted OculusIT to transform and manage the technology they rely on every day. Through a globally integrated delivery model, OculusIT strengthens IT operations, improves institutional decision-making, and delivers superior experiences for students, faculty, and staff. The company partners with institutions to bring clarity to complex technology decisions and build more resilient, secure environments that support their academic mission. Learn more at www.oculusit.com

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Staci Corbett
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About Seceon
Seceon delivers an Agentic AI-powered Autonomous SOC for real-time threat detection, investigation, and response. Its Open Threat Management Platform unifies SIEM, XDR, UEBA, Compliance, and GenAI security across network, endpoint, identity, cloud, and email - processing 2.4 trillion daily events. Seceon's Platform accelerates response, reduces alert fatigue, and strengthens operations for 9,800+ customers and 850+ MSSP partners worldwide. Seceon was named in the 2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ "Voice of the Customer" for SIEM. Learn more at www.seceon.com.

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Shikha Pandey
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www.seceon.com
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SOURCE Seceon Inc.