HUNTSVILLE — Intuitive Research and Seven States Power joined to deliver a cybersecurity service for local power companies (LPCs) across the Tennessee Valley.

The Grid Cyber Protection Service helps protect critical infrastructure and providing staffing and budgetary services.

“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.”

Seven States Power is an energy cooperative owned and operated by the 153 LPCs across seven states of the Tennessee Valley. Seven States helps LPCs design, develop, and deploy cybersecurity, electric vehicle charging, and renewable energy installations.

“Critical infrastructure, including local power companies, are major targets of sophisticated threat actors,” said Intuitive Senior Advisor Chuck Speaks. “This partnership with Seven States will allow Intuitive cybersecurity subject matter experts to provide a one-of-a-kind service that addresses LPCs’ unique cyber challenges while overcoming common staffing and budgetary pressures.

“We are truly excited to partner on such an important mission that directly impacts the lives of everyone in the Tennessee Valley region.”

Betsey Kirk McCall, president and CEO of Seven States, said her company exists to support their member-owner LPCs.

“Seven States acts as an extension of their own resources, including cybersecurity,” she said. “We are proud to launch the Grid Cyber Protection Service because we know our LPCs will greatly benefit from Intuitive’s expertise in this essential area.”

Through the GCPS, Huntsville-based 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.

The GCPS will provide 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.

Additional professional services such as penetration testing, physical security assessments, IT and security architectural services, compliant cloud migration or evaluation, and phishing campaigns can be acquired on an ad-hoc basis.