Certification Services in Brazil (BR)

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 Brazil (BR)

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

The worldwide version of this data is available on a separate page. This data is also available divided into:

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
%		 2004 2005 2006
Jun Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
VeriSign 61.46 1583 1664 1684 1712 1713 1731 1720 1770 1767 1770 1795 1799 1765 1773
GeoTrust 16.26 130 286 291 297 310 323 351 370 383 411 423 430 448 469
UniCERT Brasil Certificadora 6.79 67 120 131 140 153 159 167 178 188 189 196 201 198 196
Comodo 6.62 263 160 165 172 173 181 181 192 194 188 186 186 198 191
Other 5.30 65 109 121 116 123 118 124 132 133 140 146 152 154 153
ICP-Brasil 3.57 0 60 78 84 86 87 94 97 98 92 101 103 94 103

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
%		 2004 2005 2006
Jun Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
VeriSign Trust Network 31.75 724 855 880 903 905 921 919 942 929 938 949 940 922 916
Thawte Consulting cc 16.08 534 436 435 444 446 439 433 443 441 444 460 472 460 464
Equifax Secure Inc. 15.11 19 170 182 201 222 253 284 309 337 377 398 406 424 436
RSA Data Security, Inc. 10.33 325 293 291 284 284 280 278 295 306 295 292 294 290 298
UniCERT Brasil Certificadora 6.79 67 120 131 140 153 159 167 178 188 189 196 201 198 196
Comodo Limited 3.71 263 158 163 170 172 179 173 177 164 149 137 123 114 107
ICP-Brasil 3.57 0 60 78 84 86 87 94 97 98 92 101 103 94 103
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 3.02 0 80 78 80 76 89 88 88 87 89 90 89 87 87
AddTrust AB 2.74 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 11 27 34 45 58 79 79
Entrust.net 1.39 30 31 34 33 34 33 34 35 35 36 40 42 40 40
Serasa 1.25 18 35 40 40 40 37 36 37 37 36 37 37 37 36
GlobalSign nv-sa 1.11 0 16 17 17 19 19 20 22 23 26 30 31 31 32
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.83 17 22 22 19 22 22 23 24 24 24 23 25 25 24
The USERTRUST Network 0.80 28 100 94 86 77 59 56 51 35 24 13 13 14 23
StartCom Ltd. 0.45 0 0 4 3 4 4 6 8 6 9 8 9 12 13
Equifax 0.35 70 3 5 4 6 6 6 6 8 8 10 10 10 10
VeriSign, Inc. 0.28 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 6 8
DigiCert Inc. 0.14 0 2 2 2 1 2 3 4 3 5 4 4 4 4
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.10 0 3 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 3
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.10 0 2 2 2 2 1 2 3 4 5 4 4 4 3
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
ChainedSSL 0.00 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 13 12 9 5 4 4 4 3 2 1 1 0 0 0

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