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Network & Infrastructure Readiness Guide

Review whether your cloud, network, identity, storage, monitoring, and security foundations are ready for AI and SaaS workloads.

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01Infrastructure inventory

02Network readiness checklist

03Identity and access review

04Cloud readiness questions

05Monitoring checklist

06Backup and recovery prompts

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Infrastructure inventory01

Network readiness checklist02

Identity and access review03

Cloud readiness questions04

Monitoring checklist05

Backup and recovery prompts06

AI workload readiness07

Risk summary model08

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Network & Infrastructure Readiness Guide

Review whether your cloud, network, identity, storage, monitoring, and security foundations are ready for AI and SaaS workloads.

Section 01

Prepare the technical foundation for SaaS and AI

Infrastructure readiness means understanding how systems are hosted, connected, protected, monitored, backed up, and scaled. This resource is aligned with public cloud guidance from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security.

Section 02

Infrastructure inventory

Cloud providers

Data centres

On-prem servers

Virtual machines

Databases

Storage systems

APIs

Firewalls

VPNs

Identity providers

Monitoring tools

Backup tools

Critical applications

Section 03

Readiness checkpoints

Network readiness

Review diagrams, critical paths, segmentation, firewall rules, VPN access, DNS, latency-sensitive systems, remote access, and third-party access.

Identity and access

Review identity provider, MFA, privileged access, service accounts, role-based access, inactive users, access reviews, and admin logs.

AI workload readiness

Review data location, transfer paths, compute, storage, model/API access, vector database needs, GPU needs, monitoring, and scaling path.

Section 04

Monitoring and recovery

System logs exist

Security logs exist

Application logs exist

Alerts are configured

Incident process exists

Backup schedule exists

Restore tests are performed

Recovery time objective is known

Recovery point objective is known

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Map systems, data, workflows, risk, and first AI use cases.

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Review Bassar services across SaaS, AI agents, data, security, and infrastructure.

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Playbook

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Architecture prompts

Next-step planning model

References

Public guidance alignment

This Bassar resource is an original advisory guide. It is not a certification, legal advice, audit evidence, or an official standard. It is designed to help teams structure discovery, planning, and implementation conversations.

Public references used for alignment include NIST AI RMF, NIST CSF 2.0, NIST SSDF, NIST SP 800-207, OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, ISO/IEC 42001, PIPEDA guidance from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model, and Canadian Centre for Cyber Security cloud guidance.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security

Guidance on cloud security assessment and authorization

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security

Guidance on the security categorization of cloud-based services

NIST CSF 2.0

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0

NIST AI RMF

AI Risk Management Framework

NIST SSDF

SP 800-218 Secure Software Development Framework

OWASP GenAI

OWASP Top 10 for LLM and Generative AI Applications

ISO/IEC 42001

ISO/IEC 42001 AI management systems

PIPEDA

PIPEDA requirements in brief