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 Organisation Certificates 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.

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).

Authority	Current %	2006	2007	2008												2009
		Jan	Jan	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan
VeriSign	60.64	1933	2176	2532	2552	2570	2579	2585	2603	2611	2627	2664	2656	2657	2667	2652
Other	22.32	288	319	469	509	555	596	630	670	715	731	763	833	872	918	976
Comodo	15.05	195	296	561	578	583	598	604	617	632	634	634	636	650	663	658
Network Solutions	1.23	1	17	32	31	34	37	41	43	46	45	47	49	49	53	54
AmbironTrustWave	0.50	0	0	16	17	16	15	15	14	15	17	18	19	20	21	22
GlobalSign	0.25	0	16	14	15	18	21	23	23	13	12	11	11	10	11	11

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.

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	32.29	1037	1121	1402	1404	1411	1412	1416	1419	1430	1437	1465	1444	1441	1433	1412
Thawte Consulting cc	VeriSign	15.96	461	524	635	644	648	665	656	666	673	678	676	689	685	702	698
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware	Comodo	10.38	0	98	335	350	362	379	385	395	404	407	397	407	429	447	454
VeriSign, Inc.	VeriSign	8.76	4	13	178	209	243	261	283	303	308	322	335	343	354	362	383
GlobalTrust	Comodo	3.70	0	60	145	151	158	167	173	177	182	181	191	183	174	171	162
I.T. Telecom		3.16	66	73	103	106	108	116	119	118	123	128	128	130	132	135	138
Cybertrust		3.06	0	0	32	37	42	44	58	65	75	78	86	100	104	114	134
Postecom S.p.A.		2.97	72	89	125	119	120	121	121	121	129	130	129	132	132	134	130
Cybertrust Inc		2.31	0	0	43	47	56	63	72	78	77	77	78	82	85	87	101
Actalis S.p.A.		2.04	14	24	38	51	53	54	56	60	60	61	63	68	76	83	89
DigiCert Inc		1.92	4	13	45	49	51	53	55	57	63	62	70	73	77	81	84
Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. CA Servizi Esterni		1.85	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	52	81
InfoCert SpA		1.58	0	0	0	4	13	20	23	33	37	39	42	55	62	68	69
Equifax	VeriSign	1.44	41	48	26	30	33	36	41	45	48	50	53	55	57	59	63
IPS Certification Authority s.l.		1.39	12	15	39	45	50	57	53	54	59	58	58	59	59	59	61
Network Solutions L.L.C.	Network Solutions	1.23	1	17	32	31	34	37	41	43	46	45	47	49	49	53	54
RSA Data Security, Inc.	VeriSign	1.12	335	368	245	217	184	159	141	123	106	95	88	79	74	65	49
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.	VeriSign	1.07	96	102	46	48	51	46	48	47	46	45	47	46	46	46	47
StartCom Ltd.		0.85	5	0	0	2	4	4	9	11	14	16	20	25	27	33	37
Comodo CA Limited	Comodo	0.46	0	0	12	15	14	15	15	15	16	17	17	18	19	20	20
SecureTrust Corporation	AmbironTrustWave	0.39	0	0	7	8	7	7	8	8	8	10	11	12	13	14	17
Centro Nazionale per l'Informatica nella PA		0.21	0	3	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	8	8	8	8	9
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	Go Daddy	0.21	0	0	4	4	4	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	7	9	9
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	Comodo	0.18	0	1	4	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	7	8	8	8
Entrust.net	Entrust.net	0.18	47	34	9	9	9	9	9	7	7	7	7	8	8	7	8
GlobalSign nv-sa	GlobalSign	0.18	16	16	14	15	17	20	22	21	10	9	8	8	7	8	8
GlobalSign Inc		0.14	2	4	8	8	8	8	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Akamai Technologies Inc		0.14	0	0	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	6	6	6	6	6
Comodo Limited	Comodo	0.11	159	67	24	23	17	12	11	10	8	7	7	7	7	5	5
XRamp Security Services Inc	AmbironTrustWave	0.11	6	12	9	9	9	8	7	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	5
AddTrust AB	Comodo	0.11	32	69	39	32	25	17	11	11	11	11	10	10	9	8	5
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH		0.07	3	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	3	3
GlobalSign	GlobalSign	0.07	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
TC TrustCenter GmbH		0.07	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3
Vodafone Group		0.05	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2
Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A.		0.05	0	0	3	7	16	21	22	33	37	41	46	64	67	25	2
TBS INTERNET	Comodo	0.05	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Jabber Software Foundation		0.02	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
IPS Seguridad CA		0.02	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Secure Business Services, Inc.	Comodo	0.02	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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
Microsoft Secure Server Authority		0.02	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1
INFN		0.00	0	43	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
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