Check Point today announced the appointment of Ashley Lukeeram as Senior Area Vice President (SAVP), Canada. Lukeeram will lead Check Point in Canada, helping organizations across the private and publicsectors adopt AI securely and strengthening the country’s digital sovereignty.
AI transformation is accelerating and Canada has an opportunity to lead by making secure, trusted AI a foundation of its digital economy. For the consumers, enterprises and the public sector, this implies a need for stronger cyber awareness, faster responses to emerging threats and an enterprise-wide risk strategy built on an AI security defense plane.
That urgency is underscored by Canada’s increasingly intense cyber threat environment. Over the past six months, Check Point Research found that Canadian organizations experienced an average of 1,664 cyberattacks per week. Ransomware has had an especially significant impact, affecting 18.2% of Canadian organizations, more than double the 9.0% global average. The data points to a threat landscape where attackers are increasing pressure across industries, exploiting vulnerabilities and continuing to use the web as a primary delivery channel.
Lukeeram joins Check Point at this defining moment, bringing 25 years of cyber security leadership to the role. Over his career, he has built high-growth technology businesses and earned board-level trust with customers. He has led Canadian go-to-market strategy at Symantec, RSA and, more recently, Tenable. Lukeeram is active in Canada’s cyber security community and has contributed to national public sector conversations on policy, breach notification, cloud strategy and critical infrastructure resilience.
Lukeeram’s appointment comes as Check Point accelerates its investment in AI security. Earlier this year, the company launched its AI Defense Plane, a unified security framework that protects employees, AI applications, and autonomous agents across the enterprise. Additionally, it introduced the industry’s first AI Network Firewall, extending discovery, governance, and protection across networks, endpoints, cloud environments, applications, and APIs. Together, these capabilities give organizations centralized visibility and control over AI adoption to safeguard both internally developed and third-party AI systems.
In Canada, Check Point launched a dedicated Canada data region for its Web Application Firewall (WAF) in March 2026, keeping configurations, logs and security processing fully within the country for organizations with data residency, privacy and sovereignty requirements.
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Check Point Appoints Ashley Lukeeram as Canadian Leader
Check Point today announced the appointment of Ashley Lukeeram as Senior Area Vice President (SAVP), Canada. Lukeeram will lead Check Point in Canada, helping organizations across the private and publicsectors adopt AI securely and strengthening the country’s digital sovereignty.
AI transformation is accelerating and Canada has an opportunity to lead by making secure, trusted AI a foundation of its digital economy. For the consumers, enterprises and the public sector, this implies a need for stronger cyber awareness, faster responses to emerging threats and an enterprise-wide risk strategy built on an AI security defense plane.
That urgency is underscored by Canada’s increasingly intense cyber threat environment. Over the past six months, Check Point Research found that Canadian organizations experienced an average of 1,664 cyberattacks per week. Ransomware has had an especially significant impact, affecting 18.2% of Canadian organizations, more than double the 9.0% global average. The data points to a threat landscape where attackers are increasing pressure across industries, exploiting vulnerabilities and continuing to use the web as a primary delivery channel.
Lukeeram joins Check Point at this defining moment, bringing 25 years of cyber security leadership to the role. Over his career, he has built high-growth technology businesses and earned board-level trust with customers. He has led Canadian go-to-market strategy at Symantec, RSA and, more recently, Tenable. Lukeeram is active in Canada’s cyber security community and has contributed to national public sector conversations on policy, breach notification, cloud strategy and critical infrastructure resilience.
Lukeeram’s appointment comes as Check Point accelerates its investment in AI security. Earlier this year, the company launched its AI Defense Plane, a unified security framework that protects employees, AI applications, and autonomous agents across the enterprise. Additionally, it introduced the industry’s first AI Network Firewall, extending discovery, governance, and protection across networks, endpoints, cloud environments, applications, and APIs. Together, these capabilities give organizations centralized visibility and control over AI adoption to safeguard both internally developed and third-party AI systems.
In Canada, Check Point launched a dedicated Canada data region for its Web Application Firewall (WAF) in March 2026, keeping configurations, logs and security processing fully within the country for organizations with data residency, privacy and sovereignty requirements.
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