⚡ Web Application Firewalls in Portugal

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

Portugal is a Southern European country with a population of around 10.3 million people.

According to our research, web application firewalls are detected on 2.4% of websites from Portugal.

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

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Wordfence with an impressive share of 34.8%, followed by F5 BIG-IP with 19.3% and Imperva WAF with 15%.

Wordfence 34.8%
F5 BIG-IP 19.3%
Imperva WAF 15%
Azure Front Door 12%
Azure Application Gateway 12%
FortiWeb 3%
Sucuri CloudProxy 2.5%
Link11 1%
Barracuda Load Balancer ADC 0.8%
SiteLock 0.8%
Myra 0.5%
F5 Distributed Cloud 0.5%
BitNinja 0.3%
WP Cerber 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Imperva WAF ^(-2)
5. Azure Application Gateway ^(-1)
8. Link11 ^(-9)
9. Barracuda Load Balancer ADC ^(-2)
11. Myra ^(-3)
13. BitNinja ^(-6)
14. WP Cerber ^(-6)

✨ Best WAF Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 14 WAF technologies used on sites from Portugal, 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	34.8%
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	19.3%
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	15%
4	Azure Front Door Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities. $35+/month	12%
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	12%
⏳	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+	3%
7	Sucuri CloudProxy Tempe, Arizona, United States A website application firewall that stops bad actors, speeds up load times, and increases website availability.	2.5%
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%
9	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	0.8%
10	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	0.8%
11	Myra Munich, Germany A German security-as-a-service platform offering DDoS mitigation, a hyperscale web application firewall, deep bot management, CDN, secure DNS, and real-time traffic filtering. €290+/month	0.5%
⏳	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+	0.5%
13	BitNinja Debrecen, Hungary A server security suite with a centralized dashboard containing an AI-powered Linux malware scanner, IP reputation, WAF, and spam detection. Free$5+/month	0.3%
14	WP Cerber New York, United States A WordPress security plugin that protects websites from hacker attacks, spam, and malware. Free$99+/year	0.3%

👉 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 16,505 websites from Portugal.
We currently track the presence of 23 WAF technologies across the web.
Of these, 14 were detected on websites from Portugal.
Statistics were last calculated on October 7, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.