Digital Island Selects Data Fellows' F-Secure

Espoo, Finland, October 6, 1999 - Data Fellows, a leading provider of centrally-managed, widely distributed security solutions, today announced that Digital Island, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISLD) has selected Data Fellows' F-Secure as its security management solution. Digital Island will be standardizing on F-Secure as a secure remote access solution for its customers to manage their servers and applications.

Digital Island, a leading provider of network services for globalizing e-business applications, serves corporations operating in multiple countries that need to securely and consistently extend business-critical applications for marketing, selling, servicing or distributing products via the Internet.

“Digital Island selected Data Fellows as its security solution vendor because of the company’s global reach and its vision for integrated security management through a single Framework, F-Secure,” said Allan Leinwand, Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer at Digital Island. “By offering security through F-Secure, Digital Island lets its corporate customers achieve higher productivity while reducing the costs associated with offering products and services on the Internet. With secure methods of storing and distributing information, our customers can maintain a competitive advantage and increase profits.”

In addition, Digital Island also plans to resell the F-Secure client application as part of its server management product offerings in the near future. Specifics of this agreement are still under negotiation.

About Digital Island, Inc.

Digital Island® is a leading provider of network services for globalizing e-business applications. Digital Island serves companies that need to securely and consistently extend business-critical applications for marketing, selling, supporting, or distributing products via the Internet. Digital Island's e-Network Services include global content distribution and hosting services, localization of the end user online experience and a reliable global Intelligent Network, all of which are designed to deliver the right content, to the right customer, in the right market, at the right time. The Company has regional data centers in New York, Santa Clara, Honolulu, London, and Hong Kong, connecting directly into 21 countries with Local Content Managers in more than 10 markets worldwide to provide the ubiquity and reach of the public Internet with the quality and functionality normally available only in a corporate wide-area network.