Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation (INTUITIVE^®) and Seven States Power Corporation are launching a partnership to deliver an innovative, managed cybersecurity service for local power companies (“LPCs”) across the Tennessee Valley. The new joint service, called the Grid Cyber Protection Service (GCPS), will protect critical infrastructure while overcoming the staffing and budgetary challenges of going alone.

Seven States Power Corporation is an energy solutions cooperative that is owned and operated by the 153 LPCs across seven states of the Tennessee Valley. Seven States serves a unique role by helping LPCs design, develop, and deploy the latest technology solutions including cybersecurity, electric vehicle charging, and renewable energy installations. The Grid Cyber Protection Service will be offered to Seven States’ network of regional LPCs.

Through the Grid Cyber Protection Service, INTUITIVE provides an enterprise-grade, affordable cybersecurity-as-a-service model to address hacktivist, criminal, and nation-state cyber threats as well as evolving government and industry regulations. Based on INTUITIVE’s DECIDE™ Platform, GCPS is a comprehensive approach to critical infrastructure cybersecurity while remaining modular and integrated with existing investments in cybersecurity tools for even greater flexibility.

LPCs across the Valley will benefit from INTUITIVE’s expert assessments, continuous monitoring, rapid response, and custom reporting services while Seven States will provide an essential understanding of the unique regional utility landscape through its unmatched relationships with stakeholders.

“INTUITIVE’s innovative and intelligence-driven model for cybersecurity keeps critical infrastructure organizations like us both compliant and resilient in the face of determined cyber adversaries,” said David Champigny, CIO of Huntsville Utilities. “Their unique financial and delivery model will likely become a standard for critical infrastructure cyber services.”

GCPS will make the entire region’s electrical grid stronger by supporting LPCs with a full-time cybersecurity staff, vulnerability and risk assessments, continuous monitoring and reporting, managed threat detection and correlation, digital forensics, malware/ ransomware protection, threat hunting, reconnaissance, and endpoint protection.

The following professional services can also be obtained separately on an ad-hoc basis: penetration testing, physical security assessments, IT and security architectural services, compliant cloud migration or evaluation, and phishing campaigns.