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
%		 2005 2006 2007 2008
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
VeriSign 70.44 1495 1767 2343 2382 2411 2439 2487 2538 2554 2556 2605 2683 2723 2740 2740
Other 16.86 316 763 484 499 499 515 524 542 554 582 599 632 639 632 656
Comodo 11.34 139 194 265 264 266 269 277 289 348 345 366 382 390 427 441
Entrust.net 0.98 31 35 33 34 36 38 37 41 42 45 46 42 42 39 38
AmbironTrustWave 0.31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 10 12 11 11 13 12
Go Daddy 0.08 0 4 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 6 6 3

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
VeriSign Trust Network 23.44 737 929 882 900 905 910 923 930 916 911 910 935 936 931 912
Equifax Secure Inc. 18.46 71 337 511 520 526 549 573 594 614 641 649 676 702 711 718
Thawte Consulting cc 13.60 454 441 500 509 516 519 521 527 530 530 537 540 534 539 529
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware 9.90 0 0 156 162 169 182 196 223 271 277 299 316 326 368 385
UniCERT Brasil Certificadora 7.71 79 188 210 219 219 227 226 240 250 268 272 282 289 296 300
VeriSign, Inc. 7.28 0 4 12 14 14 14 21 31 49 80 119 168 209 238 283
ICP-Brasil 5.37 0 98 133 140 143 147 150 150 158 164 174 191 199 201 209
RSA Data Security, Inc. 4.29 278 306 323 324 325 322 316 323 311 282 264 238 218 194 167
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 1.67 26 87 82 84 87 82 81 81 79 65 65 65 63 64 65
Equifax 1.39 20 8 26 27 30 34 38 41 45 44 48 51 52 51 54
Serasa 1.31 26 37 48 52 52 52 53 52 57 57 57 55 55 47 51
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 1.08 18 24 26 27 23 24 24 31 31 32 33 36 38 37 42
Entrust.net 0.98 31 35 33 34 36 38 37 41 42 45 46 42 42 39 38
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.72 7 23 32 26 29 33 37 40 40 40 39 38 33 29 28
AddTrust AB 0.64 0 27 67 61 56 46 41 32 35 33 33 32 31 27 25
DigiCert Inc 0.39 0 3 5 6 6 7 9 8 10 13 14 14 13 12 15
Comodo Limited 0.36 139 164 40 39 39 39 38 32 32 26 24 21 19 15 14
SecureTrust Corporation 0.31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 6 9 10 11 13 12
The USERTRUST Network 0.28 80 35 7 4 8 9 14 11 10 3 13 9 8 11 11
Comodo CA Limited 0.21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 5 6 8 8
StartCom Ltd. 0.13 0 6 17 16 15 13 12 9 4 4 6 11 8 5 5
UTN - DATACorp SGC 0.13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 7 7 6 6 5
GoDaddy.com, Inc. 0.08 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 3
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.05 0 0 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
Secure Business Services, Inc. 0.05 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 2
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.05 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
thawte, Inc. 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Accenture 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Digi-Sign Limited 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority 0.03 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.03 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1
ChainedSSL 0.00 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.00 2 3 10 10 10 10 10 9 7 4 3 1 0 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 12 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.00 0 4 2 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 3 0
unknown 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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