REMINDER/Akamai's Tom Leighton to Testify at U.S. Congressional Hearing on the State of Cyber Security in the U.S. Government.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

REMINDER...for Thursday (Oct. 16)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2003

Dr. Tom Leighton, co-founder and chief scientist of Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the world's largest on demand distributed computing platform for conducting profitable e-business, will present testimony this week before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform.

Dr. Leighton, one of the world's pre-eminent authorities on algorithms for network applications, will speak on "The State of Cyber Security in the United States Government." Dr. Leighton's testimony will address:

-- The Internet's underlying architecture

-- The evolution of Internet vulnerabilities and their potential

impact on government infrastructure (as a case in point, Dr.

Leighton will provide a visual demonstration of the effects of

the famed Slammer Worm to Internet communications on a global

scale)

-- How a distributed computing model mitigates the impact of

denial of service attacks and Internet theft

When:     Thursday, October 16, 2003
          10:00 am

Where:    Washington DC, U.S. House of Representatives
          Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2154

The testimony will also be webcast live at www.house.gov/reform.

During the course of his career as a professor of applied mathematics at MIT and as chief scientist of Akamai, Dr. Leighton has served on dozens of government, industrial, and academic review committees; program committees; and editorial boards. Dr. Leighton holds numerous patents involving cryptography, digital rights management, and algorithms for networks. He is a Fellow for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was appointed in 2003 as a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). He is a former two-term chair of the 2,000-member Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Complexity Theory, and a former two-term editor-in-chief of the Journal of the ACM, the nation's premier journal for computer science research.

Akamai operates the world's largest distributed computing platform with more than 14,000 servers located in over 1,100 networks and 70 countries. Using sophisticated mathematical methods and algorithms to coordinate the operation of thousands of Web servers across the Internet, Akamai distributes content and applications from thousands of Web sites to hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide. As part of its services, Akamai provides the most extensive, real-time worldwide view of Internet traffic and conditions, enabling it to diagnose problems with the Internet. Hundreds of enterprises and government agencies around the globe utilize the Akamai platform to distribute their content and applications reliably, securely, and efficiently.

Contact: To arrange an interview with Dr. Leighton before or after the hearing, contact Caryn Brownell at 617-444-2524 or [e-mail], or Deb Figlioli at 617-585-2249 or [e-mail].

About Akamai

Akamai(R) - The Business Internet, is the world's largest 'on demand' distributed computing platform for conducting profitable e-business. Overcoming the inherent limitations of the Internet, Akamai's services ensure a high-performing, scalable, and secure environment for organizations to cost effectively extend and control their e-business infrastructure. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai's industry-leading services, matched with world-class customer care, are used by hundreds of today's most successful enterprises and government agencies around the globe. For more information, visit www.akamai.com.