Symantec Extends Relationship with Akamai for Worldwide Distribution of Industry-Leading Internet Security Solutions

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Akamai is Symantec's preferred and majority provider of secure content and applications delivery services

Cambridge, MA - August 13, 2002 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the leading provider of edge computing solutions delivering secure content and distributed applications across the Internet, intranets, and extranets, today announced that Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC), the world leader in Internet security technology, has extended its agreement with Akamai for use of the Akamai EdgeSuiteSM service. As a result, Symantec will continue to rely upon EdgeSuite and Akamai's massively distributed global platform to distribute its best-of-breed security solutions with dramatically increased download success rates and efficiency to enterprise clients worldwide.

Symantec provides a comprehensive range of Internet security products, solutions and services for more than 100 million users around the world including some of the world's largest corporate enterprises, service providers, and government agencies. With new security challenges facing e-enabled enterprises daily, demand for Symantec's Internet security solutions has grown significantly among the Global 500. The Akamai EdgeSuite service manages the complex process of delivering Symantec's critical Internet security software to customers around the world in a highly reliable and consistent fashion from the Internet's edge.

Since deploying Akamai's services just over a year ago, Symantec, one of Akamai's charter EdgeSuite customers, has witnessed numerous benefits including measurable performance gains in the delivery of an average of 12.7 million downloads of its security software on a daily basis.

"The Akamai EdgeSuite solution for digital file distribution offers Symantec unprecedented results when leveraging the Internet as a global distribution channel. Outsourcing to Akamai allows us to expand customer reach, significantly reduce infrastructure costs, and increase our time-to-market advantage," said Mark Egan, chief information officer, Symantec Corp. "It is for these reasons that Akamai continues to be a majority component of our strategy for delivering unmatched performance on a global scale while minimizing Web infrastructure burdens and expenses."

"Earning a trusted, ongoing relationship requires that we understand our customers' pain points, demonstrate a clear ROI, and offer real solutions to real business problems," said Michael Ruffolo, executive vice president, Global Sales, Services, and Marketing, Akamai. "The extension of our relationship with Symantec demonstrates our ability to meet these requirements. We look forward to helping Symantec preserve its renowned brand for security expertise with its customers, and assisting them in their continued e-business efforts."

EdgeSuite is an integrated suite of services for secure, scalable, and reliable assembly and delivery of Web sites, business applications, and Web services via the Internet. These services are built on the Akamai Platform, the world's largest distributed edge computing platform. EdgeSuite simplifies Internet infrastructure and ensures unmatched performance, reliability, and scalability.

About Symantec
Symantec, the world leader in Internet security technology, provides a broad range of content and network security software and appliance solutions to individuals, enterprises and service providers. The company is a leading provider of client, gateway and server security solutions for virus protection, firewall and virtual private network, vulnerability management, intrusion detection, Internet content and e-mail filtering, remote management technologies and security services to enterprises and service providers around the world. Symantec's Norton brand of consumer security products is a leader in worldwide retail sales and industry awards. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has worldwide operations in 38 countries. For more information, please visit www.symantec.com.

About Akamai
Akamai is the leading provider of edge computing solutions, delivering secure content and distributed applications across the Internet, intranets, and extranets.

These solutions enable customers to achieve optimal results from their e-business initiatives, thereby reducing the cost of ownership, improving ROI, and creating new revenue streams. Akamai's globally distributed edge computing platform comprises more than 12,900 servers in more than 1,000 networks in 66 countries, ensuring the highest levels of availability, reliability, and performance. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services and world-class customer care to hundreds of successful enterprises, government entities, and leading e-businesses worldwide. For more information, visit www.akamai.com.

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Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, the effects of any attempts to intentionally disrupt our services or network by hackers or others, failure of our telecommunications suppliers to provide sufficient transmission capacity, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.