⚡ Website Security Tools in Italy

Website security tools protect websites and web applications from threats such as unauthorized access, brute-force attacks, malware infections, spam, and data breaches by monitoring activity and blocking malicious requests.

Italy is a Southern European country with a population of around 59 million people.

According to our statistics, website security tools are detected on 11.9% of websites from Italy.

Statistics based on 89K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top security tools in Italy in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Really Simple Security, which dominates the market with a substantial 57.4% share.
It is followed by Cloudflare Email Obfuscation with 26.1% and Jetpack with 13.7%.

Really Simple Security 57.4%
Cloudflare Email Obfuscation 26.1%
Jetpack 13.7%
Wordfence 9%
Suhosin 0.1%
Link11 0.08%
Sansec Watch 0.05%
SiteLock 0.04%
Imunify360 0.03%
WP Cerber 0.02%
BitNinja 0.009%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top tools that are more popular in Italy than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

5. Suhosin ^(-2)
6. Link11 ^(-2)
9. Imunify360 ^(-2)
10. WP Cerber ^(-2)

✨ Best Security Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 11 security tools used on sites from Italy, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Really Simple Security Groningen, Netherlands A security plugin for WordPress that can generate an SSL certificate, enforce https redirection, scan for possible vulnerabilities, enable 2FA, and implement WordPress hardening. Free$49+/year	57.4%
2	Cloudflare Email Obfuscation San Francisco, California, United States Cloudflare Email Address Obfuscation hides email addresses on web pages from bots by encrypting them. Free$25+/month	26.1%
3	Jetpack San Francisco, California, United States A collection of security, performance, and growth tools that make WordPress sites safer, faster, and increase traffic. Free$19.95+/month	13.7%
4	Wordfence Seattle, Washington, United States A WordPress security plugin that provides a web application firewall and malware scanner to protect websites from hacking attempts, malicious traffic, and vulnerable code. Free$149+/year	9%
5	Suhosin Bonn, Germany An advanced protection system for PHP 5, designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core.	0.1%
6	Link11 Frankfurt, Germany Offers a cloud-based security platform that includes web application firewall, distributed denial-of-service protection, bot management, and API security. €613+/month	0.08%
7	Sansec Watch Utrecht, Netherlands A service that provides automated Content Security Policy monitoring and management specifically for Magento. Free	0.05%
8	SiteLock Scottsdale, Arizona, United States A provider of website security protection and monitoring services. $149+/year	0.04%
9	Imunify360 Estero, Florida, United States A comprehensive security suite for Linux web servers that includes antivirus, firewall, WAF, and more. $12+/month	0.03%
10	WP Cerber New York, United States A security plugin that protects WordPress powered sites from intruders and hackers. Free$29.39+/quarter	0.02%
11	BitNinja Debrecen, Hungary A server security suite with a centralized dashboard containing an AI-powered Linux malware scanner, IP reputation, WAF, and spam detection. Free$5+/month	0.009%

👉 See Also

🌎 Security in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 89,147 websites from Italy.
We currently track the presence of 12 security tools across the web.
Of these, 11 were detected on websites from Italy.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.