⚡ Web Application Firewalls in Nigeria

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

Nigeria is a West African country with a population of over 226 million people.

According to our research, web application firewalls are detected on 2.2% of websites from Nigeria.

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⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Wordfence with an impressive share of 38.4%, followed by Sucuri CloudProxy with 19.8% and Imperva WAF with 15.1%.

🚀 Highlights

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

✨ Best WAF Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 11 WAF technologies used on sites from Nigeria, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket 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
2
Sucuri CloudProxy
Tempe, Arizona, United States

A website application firewall that stops bad actors, speeds up load times, and increases website availability.
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
SiteLock
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

A cloud-based website security service that monitors websites and protects them from malware, vulnerabilities, and malicious traffic.

$19.99+/month
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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+
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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+
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All-In-One Security
Newport, Wales, United Kingdom

A WordPress security and firewall plugin that protects websites from hackers, bots, and other cyber threats.

Free$44.50+/year
10
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
11
Ivanti vADC
South Jordan, Utah, United States

A software-based application delivery controller solution that delivers applications with predictable performance and strong multi-layered security and includes Virtual Traffic Manager, Services Director and Web Application Firewall.

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