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Arizona Trucking Email Security

79.5% of active carrier domains in Arizona have no enforced DMARC — leaving freight operators open to email impersonation, payment-redirect fraud, and cargo theft via phishing.

Edition: 2026-Q2State rank: #22Carriers: 6,280Domains: 5,466
By Stefan Efros, CEO & Founder, EFROS
Updated ·

No enforced DMARC

79.5%

national: 80.1%

p=reject

8.5%

national: 7.5%

Microsoft 365

38.0%

national: 38.1%

M365 + no DMARC (carriers)

1,512

national: 92,822

MTA-STS

3.9%

national: 3.3%

DNSSEC

6.5%

national: 6.1%

Dead domains

537

of 5,466 scanned

Total carriers

6,280

540 with dead domain

Risk bands — Arizona carriers

Carrier counts by risk band (composite email-security pain score). Critical = score 70+; Minimal = score <15.

Risk bandScore rangeCarriersDomains
Criticalscore 70+571503
Highscore 50–691,6561,515
Mediumscore 30–492,4552,111
Lowscore 15–291,009760
Minimalscore <154940

Arizona vs. national average

No enforced DMARC79.5%vs 80.1% national
p=reject adoption8.5%vs 7.5% national
MTA-STS3.9%vs 3.3% national
DNSSEC6.5%vs 6.1% national

What the Arizona numbers actually mean

DMARC posture. Arizona's share of carrier domains with no enforced DMARC sits at 79.5% within 0.6 points of the national average. enforced p=reject DMARC adoption is roughly in line with the national pool — meaning most Arizona domains either have no DMARC at all or are stuck at the monitor-only p=none policy. At the protective end of the distribution, 8.5% of Arizona domains are at p=reject — the only DMARC policy that actually instructs receivers to drop spoofed mail.

Microsoft 365 surface. Microsoft 365 mailflow adoption tracks the national distribution closely, so the 1,512 M365 carriers in Arizona with DMARC disabled represent the same "paid-for-but-switched-off" pattern that drives the national headline. That share is 24.1% of all Arizona carriers — a one-flag-flip remediation set that any regional MSP or in-house IT lead can clear in a single quarter.

Transport encryption. MTA-STS adoption sits at 3.9%, materially below the threshold a freight payment-redirect attacker would have to clear to be inconvenienced by transport-layer policy. DNSSEC adoption in Arizona runs at 6.5% (vs 6.1% national) — meaningful for downstream DKIM and MTA-STS validation, but still a minority signal.

Risk-band shape. 9.1% of Arizona carriers sit in the critical risk band (score 70+) — above the national share of 8.4% — meaning a disproportionate cluster carries simultaneously broken SPF, missing or monitor-only DMARC, and no MTA-STS. The composite pain score blends SPF posture, DMARC enforcement, MTA-STS presence, and DNSSEC — so a carrier clusters in the critical band only when several controls fail together. Remediation that flips DMARC to enforcement plus turns on MTA-STS typically moves a carrier two bands down in one quarter.

What this means for buyers and shippers. If you are dispatching freight, settling broker payments, or receiving rate confirmations from Arizona-based carriers, the operational exposure is the 79.5%of domains that cannot stop a stranger from sending email in the carrier's name. Payment-redirect and load-redirect fraud rides on exactly that gap. Verifying a counterparty's DMARC posture before a first wire — a 30-second DNS lookup — is the cheapest control in the freight stack.

Compare Arizona with other states

States closest in carrier-count rank to Arizona. Each is scored on the same DNS-derived control set, so the comparison is apples-to-apples.

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Data as of 2026-05-20from public DNS measurements. Statistics are domain-weighted unless noted. State scope is the carrier's FMCSA-registered state. Methodology: read the full index.