⚡ Web Application Firewalls in Ethiopia

Web Application Firewalls (WAF) are security solutions that inspect and filter incoming HTTP and HTTPS requests before they reach a web application.

Ethiopia is an East African country with a population of over 127 million people.

According to our research, web application firewalls are detected on 2% of websites from Ethiopia.

Statistics based on 344 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top WAF technologies in Ethiopia in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Azure Front Door with a share of 28.6%, followed by Sucuri CloudProxy with 28.6% and Azure Application Gateway with 14.3%.

Azure Front Door 28.6%
Sucuri CloudProxy 28.6%
Azure Application Gateway 14.3%
Wordfence 14.3%
FortiWeb 14.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

✨ Best WAF Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 5 WAF technologies used on sites from Ethiopia, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Azure Front Door Redmond, Washington, United States A content delivery network service from the Microsoft Azure cloud that offers more than 100 edge locations, Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities, and TCP splitting paired with a private global Microsoft backbone network. $35+/month	28.6%
2	Sucuri CloudProxy Tempe, Arizona, United States A website application firewall that stops bad actors, speeds up load times, and increases website availability.	28.6%
3	Azure Application Gateway Redmond, Washington, United States A managed web traffic load balancer and full reverse proxy that enables scalable, highly available, and secure web application delivery on Azure. $0.0255+/hour	14.3%
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	14.3%
⏳	FortiWeb Sunnyvale, California, United States A web application firewall that protects web applications and APIs from known and unknown exploits and zero-day threats. $3,400+	14.3%

👉 See Also

🌎 WAF 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 344 websites from Ethiopia.
We currently track the presence of 23 WAF technologies across the web.
Of these, 5 were detected on websites from Ethiopia.
Statistics were last calculated on November 3, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.