Key Findings
1.9% of analyzed companies use 8 certificate providers.
Approximately 60% of businesses use three or more certificate providers.
4.1% of analyzed companies use 7 certificate providers.
7.4% of analyzed companies use 6 certificate providers.
Over two-thirds of all Global 2000 companies have less than half of the recommended domain security measures implemented.
22.4% of analyzed companies use 1 certificate provider.
Three leading providers supply 89% of the DV certificates used by analyzed organizations.
Let’s Encrypt, Google ®, and Amazon ® combined account for 66% of all certificates analyzed from organizations.
Extended Validation (EV) certificates account for 1.9% of all SSL certificates.
15.8% of analyzed companies use 4 certificate providers.
16.6% of analyzed companies use 3 certificate providers.
12.2% of analyzed companies use 5 certificate providers.
By 2029, SSL and TLS certificate life cycles will shrink from 367 days to just 47 days.
Organization Validation (OV) certificates represent 24.6% of all SSL certificates.
By 2028, DCV re-use periods will decline from 367 days to only 10 days.
0.3% of analyzed companies use 10 or more certificate providers.
18.5% of analyzed companies use 2 certificate providers.
One organization had as many as 13 certificate providers.
Domain Validation (DV) certificates account for 73.5% of all SSL certificates.
1.0% of analyzed companies use 9 certificate providers.