Certification Services in Austria (AT)

This analysis relates to those sites found in the survey where the common name in the certificate matched the hostname, and the certificate's digital signature was not detected as being self-signed.

Market Share of Certification Authorities in Austria (AT)

The following graph shows the share of sites currently certified by each certificate authority. Brands belonging to the major companies have been grouped together.

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Certificate market share

Certificate market share

The following table and graph show the change over time of the number of sites certified by the main CA companies. The different brands of the major players are grouped together (so RSA Data Security & Thawte are included in Verisign; Equifax and UserTrust are included in GeoTrust).

Certificate authority groups over time

Certificate authority group share

Authority Current
%		 2005 2006 2007 2008
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
VeriSign 68.22 1121 1216 1991 2006 2021 2046 2084 2154 2185 2203 2228 2233 2253 2277 2295
Other 18.40 388 584 198 276 372 384 406 432 441 456 505 557 584 605 619
Comodo 12.54 132 215 256 269 270 276 281 293 371 379 386 393 405 412 422
AmbironTrustWave 0.33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 9 9 9 10 11
Entrust.net 0.27 6 7 8 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 9
Network Solutions 0.24 0 1 6 6 6 5 5 5 6 7 8 8 9 9 8

The following graph and table show the complete results by certificate authority. These results are broken out into the individual companies and brands, as given by the organisation field on the certificate.

Certificate authority brands over time

Certificate authority brand share

Authority Current
%		 2005 2006 2007 2008
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
Thawte Consulting cc 23.99 670 678 708 712 708 726 740 756 768 772 780 780 786 802 807
Equifax Secure Inc. 17.00 99 346 505 503 504 496 511 536 544 551 558 565 569 565 572
VeriSign Trust Network 10.29 271 308 337 345 340 348 342 340 337 338 337 342 338 347 346
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware 9.60 0 0 101 121 129 142 155 173 229 240 249 272 290 307 323
Cybertrust 7.05 0 0 96 102 115 127 140 162 170 178 186 200 214 228 237
Equifax 6.27 85 28 93 102 121 128 145 162 172 183 190 189 201 203 211
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH 5.53 0 0 0 61 141 134 132 129 126 122 147 175 180 185 186
VeriSign, Inc. 4.70 0 14 39 43 46 54 68 82 92 101 118 132 143 154 158
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt 2.29 0 0 7 11 13 20 25 28 41 49 67 74 76 77 77
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 2.14 32 72 91 86 86 85 83 83 82 78 77 76 76 75 72
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 2.05 67 87 77 76 77 77 74 76 75 74 72 70 68 67 69
RSA Data Security, Inc. 1.61 148 144 125 127 127 124 113 114 109 101 89 73 66 57 54
Comodo Limited 1.16 131 186 92 90 85 79 74 67 82 77 70 56 53 44 39
AddTrust AB 1.04 0 25 58 53 51 50 47 46 48 48 50 47 43 39 35
StartCom Ltd. 0.98 0 11 25 25 22 23 27 26 29 31 32 33 33 33 33
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.89 13 16 26 29 29 29 29 31 28 29 27 28 28 29 30
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.65 19 22 26 28 28 27 27 28 28 27 26 24 26 22 22
DigiCert Inc 0.56 1 4 7 7 9 8 9 10 12 13 13 13 16 18 19
Comodo CA Limited 0.42 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 5 8 8 11 14
Entrust.net 0.27 6 7 8 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 9
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.24 0 1 6 6 6 5 5 5 6 7 8 8 9 9 8
GlobalSign 0.24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 6 8
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.21 9 5 8 9 10 11 11 10 8 8 7 7 7 7 7
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority 0.18 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 5 7 5 6 6 6
AddTrust Sweden AB 0.15 0 0 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
SecureTrust Corporation 0.12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 4
thawte, Inc. 0.09 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 3
The USERTRUST Network 0.09 74 65 16 12 12 8 8 5 5 4 5 4 4 4 3
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH 0.09 0 0 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Root CA 0.06 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Postecom S.p.A. 0.03 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
CAcert Inc. 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
ChainedSSL 0.00 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
United SSL Deutschland GmbH 0.00 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GTE Corporation 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 16 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Deutsche Telekom AG 0.00 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
SCANDTRUST AB 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
unknown 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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