Assured Inc. (Head Office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Atsushi Omori) is pleased to announce the release of "Assured Cloud Assessment for Financial Institutions," a new service that allows for the security assessment of cloud services based on the high security standards required by financial institutions*1, aligning with the "Assured Cloud Assessment" service for evaluating the security credibility of cloud services. Through this service, we aim to standardize security assessment criteria across the industry and enhance the security of third parties as a whole, going beyond simply improving the efficiency of individual company investigation tasks in the financial industry, where the dual demands of strict security governance and rapid DX promotion are paramount. *1 Management items based on major domestic and international security guidelines and frameworks, including those from the Financial Services Agency. (Screen Image) Cyberattack Damage and the Advancement of Security Governance in Financial Institutions As digitalization accelerates across all industries, "cyberattack damage" via business partners, including cloud services, has become a serious social issue. In particular, the financial industry, which places high importance on reliability and safety, is seeing an accelerating year-on-year demand for advanced governance responses, such as the permeation of the Financial Services Agency's "Guidelines on Cybersecurity in the Financial Sector*2" and the tightening of requirements for third-party risk management. Consequently, cloud services used are now required to undergo security assessments with a greater depth than ever before. "Assured Cloud Assessment" has been in service since 2022 to address the burden on cloud service providers arising from investigations using unique, company-specific check sheets and the handling of repetitive responses when considering the use or continuation of cloud services. As of the end of April 2026, it has been intr