About

Who you're dealing with

Shaun Paul Baldacchino Calleja — infrastructure and security practitioner in the EU (Malta): 15+ years running production estates in a regulated industry, ISO 27001 practitioner, GIAC GWAPT, GitLab CI/Terraform/GCP daily. I build the pipelines I sell.

NextGen Solutions exists because of one observation: small software vendors are about to be regulated like manufacturers, and the compliance industry's answer — templates and policy prose — is not what the regulation actually asks for. The Cyber Resilience Act asks you to demonstrate conformity of your product and your processes, release after release. That's an engineering problem, and I approach it as one.

The evidence pipeline sold here is the same one this operation runs on its own releases: every build emits a signed SBOM, a vulnerability scan, and a gate result against the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue. The document templates quote the regulation from the EUR-Lex consolidated text, verbatim, with the article references attached — because the fastest way to lose an auditor's trust is a paraphrase.

I write a weekly article on CRA readiness — theCRA countdown series — running up to the 11 September 2026 reporting deadline. If you want the short version of whether any of this applies to you, the60-second check is honest, and so is the scoping call: if you're out of scope, I'll say so and the call costs you nothing.

What I don't do: legal interpretation (I'll refer you to counsel), notified-body conformity routes (I'll say so in the first call), and compliance theatre.

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