This contract is available to WAICU members through WAICU's partnership with The Coalition for College Cost Savings.

DeepSeas provides colleges and universities across the country a full suite of advisory, compliance, and testing services tailored to the unique needs of higher education. In addition, DeepSeas MDR+, combines the data, scale, and automation from the DeepSeas Cyber Defense Platform with world-class analysts, engineers, and incident responders to ensure timely, relevant, and validated threat notifications. DeepSeas MDR+ is the first and only MDR solution that covers the entire converged attack surface, including OT, IT, cloud, and mobile environments.

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SecurIT360 is a full-service cybersecurity consulting firm which was founded in 2009. Its founder, David Forrestall (CISSP, CISA), has put together a team of credentialed professionals who are collectively focused on the physics of securing IT. SecurIT360 is proud to be an independent, vendor agnostic, technology company focused on developing programs and systems specifically catered to their clients’ needs.

SecurIT360 empowers their clients with the advice needed to improve and maintain their security posture and meet regulatory compliance standards.

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This contract is available to WAICU members through WAICU's partnership with The Coalition for College Cost Savings.

Transform large, complex, unpredictable capital outlays into predictable, manageable finances with First American Equipment Finance. Headquartered in Rochester, NY, First American provides leasing and financing for thousands of commercial borrowers nationwide. With three decades of experience, our strength and stability is supported by our structure as a wholly-owned subsidiary of City National Bank, a financial institution with more than $93B in assets.¹ In 2015, City National was acquired by RBC, a top 15 bank globally based on market capitalization.² This position gives us the means to offer comprehensive equipment financing solutions delivered by industry-aligned specialists.

With over 80 years of combined experience and a track record of working with more than 800 Colleges nationwide—including community colleges, private and public liberal arts colleges, and large, elite research institutions—First American has the expertise to help you accelerate your campus-wide projects. Our comprehensive suite of programs is designed to simplify financing so that you can focus on delivering the best education possible to your students, whether you need to renew your technology, renovate your campus, or address deferred maintenance projects.

¹City National Bank, At-A-Glance Q4 2023, ² RBC, RBC at a Glance – Q4/2023,
First American Commercial Bancorp, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of City National Bank. Deposit products and services are offered by City National Bank Member FDIC. City National Bank is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada. All trademarks are property of the respective owners. Additional terms apply and can be found by visiting faef.com/terms.
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Core Education, a public benefit corporation, is WAICU’s exclusive partner for business model transformation and a long-term, mission-critical operating partner of colleges and universities. The Core-WAICU agreement allows WAICU-member institutions to enhance their business models through a unique operating partnership designed to leverage economies of scale to improve revenue, technology, and operating effectiveness. Having served more than 80 institutions and with a staff of more than 200 experts, Core can be a mission-critical partner, providing institutions with necessary operating resources to achieve a prosperous future state. Core leverages economies of scale as operators to achieve operational effectiveness, technology efficiency, market expansion, and successful capital strategies.

Comprehensive Supporting Services
Core believes transformation isn’t a series of fragmented projects. Rather, transformation takes place within a comprehensive institutional operating architecture. The modern institution comprises a set of interconnected “engines” that convert mission into motion, vision into velocity, and capacity into sustained performance. Core helps schools identify where to start and how to connect transformation efforts within each engine to the greater architecture. Start anywhere and evolve.

The Engines of the Institutional Operating Architecture

• Growth & Transformation (Strategic Expansion)
• Strategic Cost (Capital Efficiency)
• Brand (Identity and Trust)
• Academic Portfolio (Learning and Market Alignment)
• Leadership (Governance and Talent Architecture)
• Real Estate (Asset and Capital Strategy)
• ERP (Digital Backbone)
• Analytics (Institutional Intelligence)
• AI (Adaptive and Self-Learning Operations)
• MAP (Structural Partnerships)

Private System Affiliation
The Core Foundation, a 501c3 public charity, has created a Private System Affiliation structure for independent institutions seeking long-term advantages of a system while preserving independence. The system is financially supported by the Core Foundation and operated by Core Education.

Alliance for Board eXcellence (ABX)
ABX is a member-driven organization focuses on supporting presidents and institutional board governance at a moment of unprecedented change in higher education.

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CDW-G is a trusted technology vendor to WAICU and many other higher education institutions and systems nationally with a team dedicated to understanding the unique challenges that these institutions face. The WAICU contract ensures that WAICU members are being discounted across all of our technology categories. With CDW-G, WAICU schools can develop the best total solution while attaining the most value with CDW-G’s full range of products and services, from discrete hardware and software products to integrated IT solutions.

CDW-G is technology “agnostic,” focused on finding the right solution for you rather than pushing a particular brand, and their sales and service delivery teams consist of highly skilled technology specialists and advanced service delivery engineers that understand HiED. CDW-G’s offerings are comprehensive, including expert consulting, design, configuration, installation, and lifecycle management services. CDW-G has services dedicated to each stage of your solution rollout and IT journey, with technical support and professional services experts, architects and engineers that give your IT team the time they need to turn IT into a competitive advantage.

The best way to learn about CDW-G’s capabilities is to ask your account manager. The account team focuses on the priorities of Higher Education like: modern learning environments, smart and connected campuses, student engagement and retention, and cybersecurity and data integrity and building a resilient workplace. Please let us know if you have any questions!

This contract is available to WAICU members through WAICU's partnership with The Coalition for College Cost Savings.

Insight provides computer and network hardware, software and peripherals with an exclusive discount to all HESS and WAICU member institutions. Insight Public Sector works with you to implement specialized higher education solutions that address your ambitious goals, including:

• Modernizing your campus and data center
• Supporting student aspirations
• Achieving agility in the cloud
• Procuring and managing devices
• Delivering collaboration tools

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