VeriSign, a company that sells encryption tools and other computer-security technology, will offer some of its services at a discount to colleges that have joined Educause, a higher-education-technology group with more than 1,700 member institutions.
The deal may be coming at a useful time for campus technology officers: 41 percent of network administrators who responded to a survey conducted by The Chronicle and Gartner Inc. said their systems had been hacked in the past year.



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