⚡ Web Application Firewalls in South Africa

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

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our research, web application firewalls are detected on 2.9% of websites from South Africa.

Statistics based on 20K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Wordfence, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 57.7% share.
It is followed by Azure Front Door with 10.9% and Sucuri CloudProxy with 6.9%.

Wordfence 57.7%
Azure Front Door 10.9%
Sucuri CloudProxy 6.9%
F5 BIG-IP 5.9%
Azure Application Gateway 5.6%
Imperva WAF 5.1%
FortiWeb 4.8%
All-In-One Security 2.5%
NetScaler 1%
Ivanti vADC 0.7%
SiteLock 0.5%
Barracuda Load Balancer ADC 0.2%
BitNinja 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

✨ Best WAF Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 13 WAF technologies used on sites from South Africa, 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	57.7%
2	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	10.9%
3	Sucuri CloudProxy Tempe, Arizona, United States A website application firewall that stops bad actors, speeds up load times, and increases website availability.	6.9%
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	5.9%
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	5.6%
6	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	5.1%
⏳	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+	4.8%
⏳	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	2.5%
9	NetScaler Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States An application delivery and security platform that provides load balancing, application acceleration, and application protection for web applications and APIs. $11,000+/year	1%
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%
11	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%
12	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	0.2%
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	0.2%

👉 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 20,858 websites from South Africa.
We currently track the presence of 23 WAF technologies across the web.
Of these, 13 were detected on websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on November 3, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.