Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)
Pegasus to be honored as 2017 Small Business of the Year
Kennett company to receive the honor from Chester County Chamber of Business & Industry
KENNETT TOWNSHIP >> Pegasus Technologies of Kennett Square will be honored as the 2017 Small Business of the Year at a ceremony Wednesday at the White Manor Country Club in Malvern.
Paul Tucker, CEO of Pegasus, said the award by the Chester County Chamber of Business & Industry belongs to the 24 employees who work at the company located off of McFarlan Road.
“This is not my award,” Tucker said. “They worked tireless hours, and not one person wins this award. It is a company award.”
Pegasus Technologies began in 2003 in a small building in Media, Delaware County. It began as a small security-focused company, and quickly was hired to perform security audits for Fortune 1,000 companies. In 2006, the company transitioned to a service provider for small and medium-sized companies in Chester County.
In was in 2008 when Pegasus acquired another IT company, Greenspire Associates, that it got its footprint in Kennett.
“We brought in more staff, more talent and our industry started to mature,” Tucker said. “We added more and more services to our arsenal, and that brought more clients.”
Today, Pegasus specializes in disaster recovery, computer monitoring, server support and desktop solutions.
Tucker said demand for services his company provides is growing because hackers are looking for smaller targets.
“As enterprise locks down their forts, the criminals don’t go away, they just move to softer targets,” Tucker said. “our goals is to layer security service on top of other managed services
so we can support users day in and day out and protect them in the future.”
The big virus today is the CryptoLocker, Tucker said ,which enters computers and it encrypts every file on the server, leaving the company helpless. This has the potential to cause companies to shutter, unless it pays a “ransom,”
in bitcoins. Bitcoins are currency that can be used as currency anonymously. Tucker said if a client gets the CryptoLocker virus, his first question is what kind of backup they have, because there is little that can be done.
Which is why, he said, protection services, especially those in layers, are
vital to small businesses.
“There can be things happening in the network unseen by the human eye, but can be seen by the computer,” he said. “We are taking those logs and putting them in an aggregate to come out with useful data and true threat alarms, and do it in a way small businesses can afford.”
Pegasus is a Microsoft Partner, which gives its clients access to an advanced set of resources and upperlevel technical support.
Tucker said Pegasus will launch a new managed security service sometime in the first quarter of this year. It will give the company new backup and disaster
recovery solutions.
“The future will take us into expanding services that have gotten us this far,” Tucker said. “It is no longer good enough to do good support, but you need good security in place for your clients. We would like to see our future growth into the Delaware County area.”