⚡ 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 11.4% of websites from Italy.

Statistics based on 102K+ 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 with a substantial share of 54.1%, followed by Cloudflare Email Obfuscation with 30.1% and Jetpack with 13.5%.

Really Simple Security 54.1%
Cloudflare Email Obfuscation 30.1%
Jetpack 13.5%
Wordfence 8.3%
SiteLock 0.09%
Link11 0.04%
Suhosin 0.04%
Sansec Watch 0.04%
WP Cerber 0.02%
Imunify360 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.

1. Really Simple Security ^(-1)
6. Link11 ^(-2)
9. WP Cerber ^(-2)
10. Imunify360 ^(-2)

✨ Best Security Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 10 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	54.1%
2	Cloudflare Email Obfuscation San Francisco, California, United States A Cloudflare Scrape Shield security feature that encrypts email addresses in HTML to hide them from harvesting bots and keep them visible and clickable for human visitors. Free$25+/month	30.1%
3	Jetpack San Francisco, California, United States A collection of security, performance, and audience growth tools for WordPress sites. Free$19.95+/month	13.5%
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	8.3%
5	SiteLock Scottsdale, Arizona, United States A provider of website security protection and monitoring services. $149+/year	0.09%
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	0.04%
7	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.	0.04%
8	Sansec Watch Utrecht, Netherlands A service that provides automated Content Security Policy monitoring and management specifically for Magento. Free	0.04%
9	WP Cerber New York, United States A security plugin that protects WordPress powered sites from intruders and hackers. Free$29.39+/quarter	0.02%
10	Imunify360 Estero, Florida, United States A comprehensive security suite for Linux web servers that includes antivirus, firewall, WAF, and more. $12+/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 102,789 websites from Italy.
We currently track the presence of 12 security tools across the web.
Of these, 10 were detected on websites from Italy.
Statistics were last calculated on September 19, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.