Essex County College Selects OculusIT for Identity and Access Management and Active Directory Managed Services

SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, January 12, 2023 – Essex County College has selected OculusIT, higher education’s leading managed IT and cloud services company, for OculusIT Easy Access – a complete Identity and Access Management (IDAM) solution. As part of the engagement, OculusIT will also provide Essex County College with Active Directory Managed Services, including AD Management Services, 24×7 Monitoring, Server Setup, and Project Management.  

  OculusIT Easy Access provides integrated security and governance along with role-based access to applications with a single click. With this partnership, Essex County Colleges extends its existing relationship with OculusIT, adding Identity and Access Management to its managed services.   

  Essex County College will leverage the full suite of features of OculusIT Easy Access, including single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, a self-service password manager, user self-registration, and automated provisioning, improving operational efficiency, productivity, and seamless functioning of digital systems. The platform will provide Essex County College with secure one-click access to more than 500 applications within a single platform, helping drive student and institutional success.  

  “OculusIT Easy Access is a turnkey solution designed to help Essex County College manage and control privileged access across the institution. Irrespective of the need to deploy a cloud or on-prem solution, OculusIT Easy Access helps establish trust, protect against insider threats, and deliver on a zero-trust framework,” says Jim Tandon, Vice President, Client Engagements for OculusIT. ”  

OculusIT Easy Access is an affordable solution for higher education that protects institutions against compromised user credentials and easily cracked passwords – common entry points for hackers looking to plant ransomware or steal data.  

OculusIT currently supports Essex County College with Managed ERP services, including functional and programming expertise, to optimize their core operations and maximize IT resources.   

Established in 1968, Essex County College is a public community college in Essex County, New Jersey. The college offers degree programs in more than 50 different majors, along with 26 academic certificate programs. Approximately 25,000 students enroll at Essex County College annually to pursue degree and non-degree programs. For further information about Essex County College, please visit www.essex.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.