BALTIMORE, MD - March 30, 2010 - SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in
information security, and Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the
leader in powering video, dynamic transactions, enterprise applications
online, today announced they have entered into a new relationship that
enables software vendors to combine a user-friendly, automated entitlement
management solution and a secure, scalable electronic software delivery
solution.
Together, the two solutions combine the back office licensing fulfillment
and automation features of Sentinel EMS, SafeNet's web based entitlement
management platform, with the secure and reliable download functionality of
Akamai's Electronic Software Delivery solution. The resulting solution is
designed to enable software vendors to improve their end-user software
purchasing and activation experience, while protecting revenue and reducing
internal operating costs.
"SafeNet and Akamai have entered into this partnership with one goal - to
bring together our complimentary solutions to create a cost-effective
electronic software management and delivery solution for companies to more
easily secure and automate their software purchasing, delivery, and license
management processes, " said Rich Kennelly, Vice President of Media at
Akamai.
Customer experience, revenue protection, and resource optimization are top
of mind for all organizations, including software vendors. SafeNet and
Akamai have nearly four decades of combined experience helping software
vendors improve usability and reduce operating costs to maximize
profitability. SafeNet solutions automate order entry, fulfillment, and
license management. Akamai's Electronic Delivery platform is architected
to give companies an alternative to physical distribution and allow them to
create a customized, branded download experience, increase consumer
engagement, improve conversion rates and garner business-critical download
analytics reporting and data. Together, the solutions are designed to
improve the end-user experience and enable software vendors to maximize
profitability with secure, automated electronic software delivery.

"The core business value of Sentinel EMS is the system's ability to
reduce the cost and complexity of software fulfillment management for
software vendors through automation. Similarly, Akamai's industry-leading
solutions have demonstrated unmatched global scale and reliability that
significantly reduce software delivery costs," said Chris Holland, vice
president, software rights management, SafeNet. "By joining forces,
SafeNet and Akamai are now able to provide customers with the ultimate
business process improvement solution for achieving maximum
profitability."
SafeNet's Sentinel® solutions meet the unique license enablement,
enforcement, and management requirements of any organization. The solution
is easy to integrate and use, innovative, and feature-focused and provides
anti-piracy, IP protection, license enablement, and license management
challenges while increasing overall profitability, improving internal
operations, maintaining competitive positioning, and enhancing
relationships with their customers and end users.

The Akamai Difference Akamai® provides market-leading managed services for powering video,
dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Having pioneered
the content delivery market one decade ago, Akamai's services have been
adopted by the world's most recognized brands across diverse industries.
The alternative to centralized Web infrastructure, Akamai's global network
of tens of thousands of distributed servers provides the scale,
reliability, insight and performance for businesses to succeed online.
Akamai has transformed the Internet into a more viable and secure place to
inform, entertain, advertise, interact, and collaborate. To experience The
Akamai Difference, visit www.akamai.com.

About SafeNet, Inc.
SafeNet is a global leader in information security, founded more than 25
years ago. The Company protects identities, transactions, communications,
data and software licensing through a full spectrum of encryption
technologies, including hardware, software, and chips. More than 25,000
corporate and government customers in 100 countries including UBS, Nokia,
Fujitsu, Hitachi, Bank of America, Adobe, Cisco, Microsoft, Samsung, Texas
Instruments, the U.S. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, the
U.S. Internal Revenue Service, trust their security needs to SafeNet. In
2007, SafeNet was acquired by Vector Capital, a $2 billion private equity
firm specializing in the technology sector. For more information, visit
www.safenet-inc.com.

Editor's Note: SafeNet is a registered trademark of SafeNet, Inc. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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 effects of any
attempts to intentionally disrupt our services or network by hackers or
others, changes in SafeNet technology or to Akamai's technology such that
they are no longer inter-operable, failure of our services to operate as
expected, unexpected termination of Akamai's relationship with SafeNet, a
failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are
discussed in Akamai's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form
10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.