⚡ Web Application Firewalls in New Zealand

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

New Zealand is an Oceanian country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our research, web application firewalls are detected on 3.7% of websites from New Zealand.

Statistics based on 16K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Imperva WAF with a share of 28.6%, followed by Wordfence with 26.4% and Azure Front Door with 18.6%.

Imperva WAF 28.6%
Wordfence 26.4%
Azure Front Door 18.6%
F5 BIG-IP 17.5%
Azure Application Gateway 4.7%
Sucuri CloudProxy 2.4%
NetScaler 0.8%
Barracuda Load Balancer ADC 0.6%
AWS WAF Captcha 0.3%
Ivanti vADC 0.3%
FortiWeb 0.3%
Link11 0.2%
SiteLock 0.2%
WP Cerber 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Imperva WAF ^(-4)
3. Azure Front Door ^(-1)
5. Azure Application Gateway ^(-1)
7. NetScaler ^(-5)
8. Barracuda Load Balancer ADC ^(-3)
12. Link11 ^(-5)
14. WP Cerber ^(-6)

✨ Best WAF Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 14 WAF technologies used on sites from New Zealand, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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	28.6%
2	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	26.4%
3	Azure Front Door Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities. $35+/month	18.6%
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	17.5%
5	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	4.7%
6	Sucuri CloudProxy Tempe, Arizona, United States A website application firewall that stops bad actors, speeds up load times, and increases website availability.	2.4%
7	NetScaler Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States An application delivery and security platform that provides high-performance load balancing, application delivery, and security solutions. $11,000+/year	0.8%
8	Barracuda Load Balancer ADC Campbell, California, United States A unified high-performance platform that helps organizations achieve their availability, acceleration, application control, and application security objectives. $7,000+/year	0.6%
9	AWS WAF Captcha Seattle, Washington, United States A feature of the AWS Web Application Firewall that helps protect web applications by requiring requests that match specific criteria to solve a captcha puzzle or silent challenge before proceeding. $$$	0.3%
10	Ivanti vADC South Jordan, Utah, United States A software-based application delivery controller solution that delivers applications with predictable performance and strong multi-layered security and includes Virtual Traffic Manager, Services Director and Web Application Firewall. $$$	0.3%
⏳	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+	0.3%
12	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	0.2%
13	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	0.2%
14	WP Cerber New York, United States A WordPress security plugin that protects websites from hacker attacks, spam, and malware. Free$99+/year	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 WAF in other countries
- United Kingdom
- Israel

🗃️ 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 16,837 websites from New Zealand.
We currently track the presence of 23 WAF technologies across the web.
Of these, 14 were detected on websites from New Zealand.
Statistics were last calculated on October 7, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.