Web Application Firewall Market Outlook:
Web Application Firewall Market size was valued at USD 7.41 billion in 2025 and is expected to reach USD 34.13 billion by 2035, expanding at around 16.5% CAGR during the forecast period i.e., between 2026-2035. In the year 2026, the industry size of web application firewall is evaluated at USD 8.51 billion.
There is an increase in the number of cyber-attacks targeting web applications. web application attacks account for 27% of all breaches and a report found that websites receive an average of 95 attacks every day, and web crawlers visit them an average of 2,600 times per week. WAF detects and blocks malicious requests before they reach the application, helping to protect against a variety of cyber threats such as SQL injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
Web application firewalls are becoming an essential component of an organization's cybersecurity strategy. The deployment of WAF in cloud and virtual environments is increasing, as these types of firewalls are better suited to protect against malicious web traffic and can be deployed quickly and easily.
