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e company's experts are rou-
tinely tasked with creating com-
prehensive, end-to-end, integrated
solutions that meet site-specific and
regulatory requirements.
Regulatory Expertise
One thing that sets NextGen apart
is its expertise and backgrounds
in the regulatory minefield that
end-users in each of the verticals
they serve are dealing with every
day. eir experts have extensive
regulatory knowledge and years of
hands-on experience with compli-
cated regulations such as Chemical
Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards
(CFATS); North American Elec-
tric Reliability Corporation Critical
Infrastructure Protection (NERC-
CIP); Maritime Transportation
Security Act (MTSA); and Trans-
portation Worker Identification
Credential (TWIC).
In addition to being experts in
the alphabet soup of chemical,
transportation and other govern-
ment regulations, it takes special
company credentials to work in
this type of market. "When you
step into an oil refinery or a chem-
ical plant, it is OSHA to the core,"
Loughin explains. "A company that
doesn't have the proper credentials
and programs in place wouldn't get
onto the site to begin with."
For NextGen, that credentialing
starts with the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security's SAFETY Act.
"It took two years of time, money
and hours to accomplish it, but our
SAFETY Act designation really set
us apart from everyone," Loughin
says. "We are covered from cra-
dle to grave for all the services we
provide, and you would be hard-
pressed to find another integrator
in the country with that broad of a
designation under DHS."
e SAFETY Act is oen misun-
derstood. It is actually an acronym
for the "Support Anti-terrorism
by Fostering Effective Technolo-
gies Act" – a federal law intended
to protect entities from the liability
they may face following a terrorist
Frank Brewer, CEO and co-founder
of NextGen Security, has a long and
diverse security background that
began in the 1980s with ADT. He was
CEO of FirstService Security and
was the founder and CEO of Security
Services and Technologies (SST).