Prudential Wins Network World All-Star Award

Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU) has won the Network World Enterprise All Star Award which recognizes companies for utilizing innovative network technologies to address enterprise business objectives. The technology cited was a tool created by Vontu, Inc., a leader in data loss prevention solutions, that helps prevent the loss of sensitive and confidential business information. "We’re happy to be recognized for implementing a technology that dramatically reduces risk to our business and that fosters customer trust,” said Tom Doughty, Prudential’s chief information security office. Prudential deployed Vontu’s Discover, Monitor and Protect data-loss prevention products in several business units. "Vontu gives us immediate visibility into confidential data on our corporate network, and has enabled us to significantly reduce the possibility of data loss,” said Doughty. Steve Roop, vice president of marketing at Vontu, said, "We congratulate Prudential for its security leadership in the financial services industry. We are proud to be working with Prudential to protect intellectual property, sensitive corporate information and confidential customer records.” Vontu is the leading provider of data loss prevention solutions for both data at rest and data in motion. Vontu allows organizations to discover and protect exposed confidential information, monitor all network traffic, block select email, FTP and web communications, and automatically enforce data loss prevention policies. By reducing the frequency and severity of both inadvertent and malicious data loss incidents, Vontu helps organizations ensure public confidence, reduce compliance risk and protect competitive advantage. For more information, please visit www.vontu.com. Prudential Financial companies, with approximately $568 billion in total assets under management as of June 30, 2006, serve individual and institutional customers worldwide and include The Prudential Insurance Company of America, one of the largest life insurance companies in the United States. These companies offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, mutual funds, annuities, pension and retirement-related services and administration, asset management, banking and trust services, real estate brokerage franchises, relocation services and, through a joint venture, retail securities brokerage services. For more information, visit www.prudential.com.