Pune, (Maharashtra) [India]: As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms how businesses operate, a new category of security risk is emerging – one that traditional cybersecurity approaches often fail to address. Founded in 2025, Arica Tech Security is positioning itself at the forefront of this challenge as one of India’s first cybersecurity firms built specifically to secure AI systems rather than simply adapting legacy security practices to them.
Based in Pune, Arica Tech Security was established to address a growing gap in the market. While organizations continue investing heavily in AI-powered products and automation, security efforts remain largely focused on infrastructure, compliance, and conventional penetration testing. The risks associated with AI models, data pipelines, and agentic workflows often remain overlooked.
Leading the company’s technical vision is CTO Prathamesh Dabir, whose background spans cybersecurity, AI/ML, and offensive security research. His experience conducting vulnerability assessments and penetration testing, combined with a deep interest in how AI systems operate under the hood, led to a simple but critical question: if attackers target AI systems directly, how prepared are organizations to defend them?
That question became the foundation of Arica Tech Security.
“We saw Indian SaaS companies aggressively expanding into US and EU enterprise markets with sophisticated AI products, but very few were addressing the security risks unique to AI itself,” said Dabir. “The market was focused on securing infrastructure while the attack surface was shifting elsewhere. Arica Tech Security was built to close that gap.”
The company’s approach extends beyond traditional VAPT and compliance assessments. Arica Tech Security conducts specialized AI security audits that examine the model layer, data pipelines, and autonomous workflows that increasingly power modern business operations. By adopting an attacker’s mindset, the firm seeks to identify vulnerabilities that automated scans and checklist-based audits often fail to uncover.
A defining milestone in the company’s journey came when its research team identified and responsibly disclosed a vulnerability in Adobe, presenting the findings at Nullcon Goa, one of Asia’s leading cybersecurity conferences. For a young firm, the disclosure demonstrated a commitment to hands-on security research and technical credibility rather than marketing-driven positioning.
That same research-first philosophy continues to drive Arica Tech Security’s work today as it audits AI systems used across Indian enterprises. The company believes that securing AI requires a fundamentally different approach from securing traditional applications and infrastructure.
Arica Tech Security’s expertise sits at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI/ML, and offensive research – an uncommon combination that allows the team to engage with both technical leaders building AI systems and security leaders responsible for protecting them. The firm is particularly focused on serving Indian SaaS companies targeting global enterprise customers, BFSI organizations navigating DPDP Act and RBI compliance requirements, and Global Capability Centres operating in India.
As AI adoption accelerates across industries, organizations face increasing pressure to deploy innovative systems while maintaining security, compliance, and trust. Arica Tech Security believes businesses need security partners capable of understanding how AI can be manipulated, exploited, or compromised before attackers discover those weaknesses first.
With AI becoming central to business operations, the company aims to establish itself as a trusted security partner for organizations building the next generation of intelligent products and services.
As businesses race to adopt AI, Arica Tech Security is focused on ensuring that what they build can withstand real-world attacks – before those attacks happen.
