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
%		 2006 2007 2008 2009
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
VeriSign 64.81 1767 2343 2740 2756 2770 2804 2834 2878 2905 2937 2937 2974 2997 3021 3028
Other 18.15 763 452 640 652 662 682 706 722 730 754 787 798 808 802 848
Comodo 14.60 194 265 441 464 468 491 495 505 537 559 568 597 632 663 682
GlobalSign 1.16 0 32 28 27 23 19 21 23 28 33 33 37 41 45 54
Entrust.net 1.01 35 33 38 44 46 42 46 50 51 48 47 47 48 48 47
Go Daddy 0.28 4 2 3 4 5 4 6 6 7 6 6 7 9 11 13

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 Group Current
%		 2006 2007 2008 2009
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
Equifax Secure Inc. VeriSign 19.31 337 511 718 724 732 746 767 787 813 838 840 847 854 887 902
VeriSign Trust Network VeriSign 18.99 929 882 912 916 905 901 894 890 880 881 879 877 893 883 887
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware Comodo 13.68 0 156 385 411 419 450 463 474 505 528 538 562 593 621 639
VeriSign, Inc. VeriSign 11.56 4 12 283 322 357 410 439 483 516 514 517 532 535 543 540
Thawte Consulting cc VeriSign 11.30 441 500 529 516 521 522 524 531 521 527 520 540 534 540 528
UniCERT Brasil Certificadora 7.71 188 210 300 307 311 321 327 328 322 322 327 325 328 318 360
ICP-Brasil 5.97 98 133 209 206 209 220 221 226 233 252 264 269 276 281 279
Equifax VeriSign 1.90 8 26 54 56 59 62 64 67 69 73 77 79 81 83 89
Serasa 1.56 37 48 51 50 53 52 55 57 59 64 68 71 71 74 73
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. VeriSign 1.46 87 82 65 65 73 73 71 71 72 72 71 73 69 69 68
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 1.28 24 26 42 45 43 42 51 54 52 50 56 59 58 58 60
Entrust.net Entrust.net 0.98 35 33 38 44 46 42 46 50 51 48 47 47 48 48 46
Alpha GlobalSign 0.75 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 10 15 19 20 23 25 28 35
DigiCert Inc 0.68 3 5 15 19 21 22 24 28 28 30 32 32 31 29 32
GlobalSign nv-sa GlobalSign 0.41 23 32 28 27 22 17 15 13 13 14 13 14 16 17 19
StartCom Ltd. 0.34 6 17 5 5 6 7 7 5 9 10 15 16 17 16 16
UTN - DATACorp SGC Comodo 0.34 0 0 5 7 8 7 7 6 7 8 7 11 13 14 16
Comodo CA Limited Comodo 0.32 0 0 8 9 9 10 9 9 9 9 9 10 12 15 15
GoDaddy.com, Inc. Go Daddy 0.28 0 0 3 3 4 4 5 6 7 6 6 7 9 10 13
SecureTrust Corporation AmbironTrustWave 0.26 0 0 12 13 14 13 15 16 17 16 14 12 12 11 12
Network Solutions L.L.C. Network Solutions 0.15 0 2 2 2 2 2 3 5 7 7 6 7 7 7 7
RSA Data Security, Inc. VeriSign 0.15 306 323 167 147 106 76 59 35 23 20 18 13 11 10 7
AddTrust AB Comodo 0.11 27 67 25 24 20 13 8 8 8 7 6 6 6 5 5
thawte, Inc. VeriSign 0.09 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 3 3 4
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.09 0 0 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 4 4 4
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority Comodo 0.06 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 3
GeoTrust Inc VeriSign 0.06 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.06 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 3
Secure Business Services, Inc. Comodo 0.04 0 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Digi-Sign Limited Comodo 0.04 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2
Accenture 0.02 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Entrust, Inc. Entrust.net 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Trustwave Holdings, Inc. 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
ChainedSSL VeriSign 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Comodo Limited Comodo 0.00 164 40 14 9 8 7 5 3 3 2 1 0 0 0 0
XRamp Security Services Inc AmbironTrustWave 0.00 3 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
The USERTRUST Network VeriSign 0.00 35 7 11 9 14 11 14 12 8 9 11 9 14 0 0
FreeSSL VeriSign 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Starfield Technologies, Inc. Go Daddy 0.00 4 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

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