⚡ Web Application Firewalls in Iraq

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

Iraq is a Western Asian country with a population of over 45 million people.

According to our research, web application firewalls are detected on 3.6% of websites from Iraq.

Statistics based on 563 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Wordfence with an impressive share of 40%, followed by F5 BIG-IP with 20% and Sucuri CloudProxy with 20%.

🚀 Highlights

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

4. Imperva WAF ^(-1)

✨ Best WAF Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 6 WAF technologies used on sites from Iraq, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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	40%
2	F5 BIG-IP Seattle, Washington, United States An enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic. $3,200+/year	20%
3	Sucuri CloudProxy Tempe, Arizona, United States A website application firewall that stops bad actors, speeds up load times, and increases website availability.	20%
4	Imperva WAF San Mateo, California, United States Imperva Cloud WAF protects websites from automated vulnerability scans, Layer 7 DDoS attacks, and malicious bots. $7,000+/year	10%
⏳	F5 Distributed Cloud Seattle, Washington, United States A SaaS-based platform that provides security, networking, and application management services across multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. $25,956+	5%
⏳	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+	5%

👉 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 563 websites from Iraq.
We currently track the presence of 23 WAF technologies across the web.
Of these, 6 were detected on websites from Iraq.
Statistics were last calculated on October 7, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.