Certification Services in Italy (IT)

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 Italy (IT)

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 74.55 1607 1933 2631 2690 2744 2798 2876 2962 3015 3080 3110 3128 3148 3232 3298
Comodo 12.70 119 195 296 309 331 343 345 365 453 468 522 531 549 556 562
Other 11.46 352 567 328 338 347 353 372 384 404 415 416 432 453 485 507
Network Solutions 0.72 0 1 17 16 18 18 19 22 22 24 26 29 32 32 32
AmbironTrustWave 0.36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 16 16 16 15 16 16
Entrust.net 0.20 15 47 34 17 17 16 10 9 8 8 8 8 9 9 9

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 31.69 801 1037 1121 1144 1165 1188 1225 1248 1268 1302 1322 1323 1341 1378 1402
Equifax Secure Inc. 14.76 82 270 401 416 439 455 487 512 540 560 573 586 592 619 653
Thawte Consulting cc 14.38 453 461 524 545 553 558 566 590 609 623 621 629 631 636 636
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware 7.57 0 0 98 111 129 144 150 174 233 247 264 282 305 327 335
RSA Data Security, Inc. 5.54 320 335 368 368 372 368 370 363 337 318 316 298 278 262 245
VeriSign, Inc. 4.25 0 4 13 15 14 20 25 34 56 82 96 119 135 165 188
GlobalTrust 3.28 0 0 60 65 74 79 85 85 99 103 145 144 145 139 145
Postecom s.p.a. 2.83 40 72 89 95 95 102 104 114 116 120 123 124 125 119 125
Equifax 2.60 92 48 82 90 95 100 104 119 121 112 100 97 101 109 115
I.T. Telecom 2.33 0 66 73 75 76 78 87 89 94 97 100 98 96 102 103
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 1.04 33 96 102 98 94 93 85 79 72 72 69 62 54 52 46
DigiCert Inc 1.02 0 4 13 14 16 16 17 20 31 35 34 36 37 40 45
Cybertrust Inc 0.97 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 10 11 19 32 39 43
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.88 5 12 15 21 25 26 28 29 31 33 33 34 39 39 39
StartCom Ltd. 0.88 0 18 33 35 39 37 38 38 40 37 38 41 37 39 39
AddTrust AB 0.88 0 32 69 66 63 58 53 53 61 62 59 59 52 44 39
Actalis S.p.A. 0.86 15 14 24 22 20 21 21 20 25 26 26 29 32 36 38
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.72 0 1 17 16 18 18 19 22 22 24 26 29 32 32 32
Cybertrust 0.72 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 7 9 13 17 30 32
Comodo Limited 0.54 119 159 67 64 62 59 54 49 54 48 46 35 32 29 24
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.32 15 16 16 12 13 12 13 12 15 16 14 14 14 14 14
Comodo CA Limited 0.29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 5 8 9 11 13
Entrust.net 0.20 15 47 34 17 17 16 10 9 8 8 8 8 9 9 9
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.20 5 6 12 12 12 14 14 14 13 12 11 11 9 9 9
Centro Nazionale per l'Informatica nella PA 0.20 0 0 3 3 3 3 4 5 7 8 7 7 7 9 9
GlobalSign Inc 0.18 0 2 4 9 9 9 9 11 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
SecureTrust Corporation 0.16 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 4 5 5 6 7 7
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.14 3 3 6 6 6 8 8 8 8 7 7 6 6 5 6
The USERTRUST Network 0.11 47 34 13 7 5 7 5 8 3 2 4 6 8 4 5
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority 0.09 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 4 4
GoDaddy.com, Inc. 0.09 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4
Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. 0.07 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.05 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2
Digi-Sign Limited 0.05 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
thawte, Inc. 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
Jabber Software Foundation 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
ChainedSSL 0.02 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Vodafone Group 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.02 0 3 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 1
I.T. Telecom S.p.A. 0.00 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
INFN 0.00 0 0 43 36 35 31 28 21 19 10 5 0 0 0 0
Akamai 0.00 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GTE Corporation 0.00 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.00 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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