⚡ Web Application Firewalls in the Philippines

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

The Philippines is a Southeast Asian country with a population of over 118 million people.

According to our research, web application firewalls are detected on 4.7% of websites from the Philippines.

Statistics based on 6K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Azure Application Gateway with an impressive share of 35.8%, followed by Wordfence with 15.6% and Sucuri CloudProxy with 14.5%.

Azure Application Gateway 35.8%
Wordfence 15.6%
Sucuri CloudProxy 14.5%
F5 BIG-IP 12.4%
Imperva WAF 10.3%
Azure Front Door 7.8%
SiteLock 1.4%
Link11 1.1%
AWS WAF Captcha 0.7%
Ivanti vADC 0.7%
F5 Distributed Cloud 0.7%
FortiWeb 0.7%
Barracuda Load Balancer ADC 0.4%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Azure Application Gateway ^(-5)
7. SiteLock ^(-1)
8. Link11 ^(-9)

✨ Best WAF Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 13 WAF technologies used on sites from the Philippines, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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	35.8%
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	15.6%
3	Sucuri CloudProxy Tempe, Arizona, United States A website application firewall that stops bad actors, speeds up load times, and increases website availability.	14.5%
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	12.4%
5	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	10.3%
6	Azure Front Door Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities. $35+/month	7.8%
7	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	1.4%
8	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	1.1%
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. $$$	0.7%
10	Ivanti vADC South Jordan, Utah, United States A software-based application delivery controller solution that delivers applications with predictable performance and strong multi-layered security and includes Virtual Traffic Manager, Services Director and Web Application Firewall. $$$	0.7%
⏳	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+	0.7%
⏳	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+	0.7%
13	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	0.4%

👉 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 6,059 websites from the Philippines.
We currently track the presence of 23 WAF technologies across the web.
Of these, 13 were detected on websites from the Philippines.
Statistics were last calculated on October 7, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.