About This Architecture
Network International's 7-layer GenAI target architecture enforces sovereign data residency and zero-trust security within Azure UAE North, combining foundation LLMs (Azure OpenAI, Claude, Grok) with in-region SLMs (Phi-4 on AKS) and strict data masking via Presidio and FPE. Data flows through PII detection, tokenization, and ACL-aware retrieval in a masked landing zone (ADLS with CMK), while orchestration via Prompt Flow and Agent Runtime applies human-in-the-loop gates and RAG grounding. Cross-cutting Layer 7 governance—AI Data Firewall, shadow-AI discovery, audit logging to Microsoft Sentinel, and DARB stage-gate controls—ensures compliance with PDPL, PCI DSS, and privacy regulations. Enterprise architects can fork this diagram to customize connectors, model choices, and regional policies for their own regulated GenAI deployments. The architecture demonstrates how to balance innovation velocity with sovereign data protection and responsible AI practices in financial services.