⚡ Web Application Firewalls in Romania

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

Romania is a Southeastern European country with a population of around 19 million people.

According to our research, web application firewalls are detected on 2.1% of websites from Romania.

Statistics based on 18K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Wordfence, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 64.3% share.
It is followed by F5 BIG-IP with 12.1% and Azure Front Door with 6%.

Wordfence 64.3%
F5 BIG-IP 12.1%
Azure Front Door 6%
Azure Application Gateway 5%
Imperva WAF 3.9%
Sucuri CloudProxy 3.7%
FortiWeb 3.4%
BitNinja 1%
Myra 0.5%
SiteLock 0.5%
Oracle WAF 0.5%
F5 Distributed Cloud 0.3%
Barracuda Load Balancer ADC 0.3%
All-In-One Security 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Azure Front Door ^(-1)
4. Azure Application Gateway ^(-2)
8. BitNinja ^(-11)
9. Myra ^(-5)
11. Oracle WAF ^(-4)
15. WP Cerber ^(-5)

✨ Best WAF Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 15 WAF technologies used on sites from Romania, 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	64.3%
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	12.1%
3	Azure Front Door Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities. $35+/month	6%
4	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	5%
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	3.9%
6	Sucuri CloudProxy Tempe, Arizona, United States A website application firewall that stops bad actors, speeds up load times, and increases website availability.	3.7%
⏳	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+	3.4%
8	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	1%
9	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%
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	0.5%
11	Oracle WAF Austin, Texas, United States A cloud-based, PCI-compliant, global security service that protects applications from malicious and unwanted internet traffic. $5+/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+	0.3%
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	0.3%
⏳	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	0.3%
15	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 18,430 websites from Romania.
We currently track the presence of 23 WAF technologies across the web.
Of these, 15 were detected on websites from Romania.
Statistics were last calculated on October 7, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.