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.

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 68.71 1933 2625 3292 3342 3390 3440 3499 3558 3620 3655 3729 3753 3792 3846 3881
Other 17.40 614 352 508 544 586 625 659 698 738 753 780 844 883 926 983
Comodo 11.74 195 296 562 579 584 600 607 620 635 637 638 641 655 668 663
Network Solutions 0.96 1 17 32 31 34 37 41 43 46 45 47 49 49 53 54
GlobalSign 0.80 0 16 14 15 18 21 23 25 28 31 32 32 35 38 45
AmbironTrustWave 0.39 0 0 16 17 16 15 15 14 15 17 18 19 20 21 22

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
VeriSign Trust Network VeriSign 25.00 1037 1121 1402 1404 1411 1412 1416 1419 1430 1437 1465 1444 1441 1433 1412
Equifax Secure Inc. VeriSign 18.89 270 401 653 681 710 739 793 828 881 898 923 950 981 1020 1067
Thawte Consulting cc VeriSign 12.39 461 524 636 645 649 666 657 667 674 679 677 690 686 703 700
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware Comodo 8.06 0 98 335 350 362 379 385 395 404 407 397 408 430 448 455
VeriSign, Inc. VeriSign 7.31 4 13 188 220 255 277 302 323 327 342 356 367 378 389 413
Equifax VeriSign 3.31 48 82 115 119 121 128 133 143 151 155 165 172 175 186 187
GlobalTrust Comodo 2.87 0 60 145 151 158 167 173 177 182 181 191 183 174 171 162
I.T. Telecom 2.44 66 73 103 106 108 116 119 118 123 128 128 130 132 135 138
Cybertrust 2.37 0 0 32 37 42 44 58 65 75 78 86 100 104 114 134
Postecom S.p.A. 2.30 72 89 125 119 120 121 121 121 129 130 129 132 132 134 130
Cybertrust Inc 1.79 0 0 43 47 56 63 72 78 77 77 78 82 85 87 101
Actalis S.p.A. 1.58 14 24 38 51 53 54 56 60 60 61 63 68 76 83 89
DigiCert Inc 1.49 4 13 45 49 51 53 55 57 63 62 70 73 77 81 84
Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. CA Servizi Esterni 1.43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 52 81
InfoCert SpA 1.22 0 0 0 4 13 20 23 33 37 39 42 55 62 68 69
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 1.08 12 15 39 45 50 57 53 54 59 58 58 59 59 59 61
Network Solutions L.L.C. Network Solutions 0.96 1 17 32 31 34 37 41 43 46 45 47 49 49 53 54
RSA Data Security, Inc. VeriSign 0.87 335 368 245 217 184 159 141 123 106 95 88 79 74 65 49
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. VeriSign 0.83 96 102 46 48 51 46 48 47 46 45 47 46 46 46 47
StartCom Ltd. 0.78 18 33 39 37 35 33 38 39 37 38 37 36 38 41 44
GlobalSign nv-sa GlobalSign 0.55 16 16 14 15 17 20 22 21 22 24 24 24 25 28 31
Comodo CA Limited Comodo 0.42 0 0 13 16 15 17 18 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 24
SecureTrust Corporation AmbironTrustWave 0.30 0 0 7 8 7 7 8 8 8 10 11 12 13 14 17
Alpha GlobalSign 0.18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 4 4 6 7 10
GoDaddy.com, Inc. Go Daddy 0.16 0 0 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 7 9 9
Centro Nazionale per l'Informatica nella PA 0.16 0 3 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 8 8 8 8 9
Entrust.net Entrust.net 0.14 47 34 9 9 9 9 9 7 7 7 7 8 8 7 8
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority Comodo 0.14 0 1 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 7 8 8 8
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.11 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 6 6 6 6 6
GlobalSign Inc 0.11 2 4 8 8 8 8 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Comodo Limited Comodo 0.09 159 67 24 23 17 12 11 10 8 7 7 7 7 5 5
XRamp Security Services Inc AmbironTrustWave 0.09 6 12 9 9 9 8 7 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 5
AddTrust AB Comodo 0.09 32 69 39 32 25 17 11 11 11 11 10 10 9 8 5
thawte, Inc. VeriSign 0.07 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 4
GlobalSign GlobalSign 0.07 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 3 3 4 4 4 3 4
TC TrustCenter GmbH 0.05 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.05 3 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 3 3
Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. 0.04 0 0 3 7 16 21 22 33 37 41 46 64 67 25 2
TBS INTERNET Comodo 0.04 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Vodafone Group 0.04 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2
GeoTrust Inc VeriSign 0.04 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2
Secure Business Services, Inc. Comodo 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
Jabber Software Foundation 0.02 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
UTN - DATACorp SGC Comodo 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
UGIS S.p.A. 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
IPS Seguridad CA 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.02 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
ChainedSSL VeriSign 0.00 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
INFN 0.00 0 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Akamai 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Digi-Sign Limited Comodo 0.00 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0
The USERTRUST Network VeriSign 0.00 34 13 5 6 7 11 8 7 4 3 6 3 7 0 0
FreeSSL VeriSign 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Starfield Technologies, Inc. Go Daddy 0.00 3 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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