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Missouri Trucking Email Security

74.5% of active carrier domains in Missouri have no enforced DMARC — leaving freight operators open to email impersonation, payment-redirect fraud, and cargo theft via phishing.

Edition: 2026-Q2State rank: #25Carriers: 6,074Domains: 4,971
By Stefan Efros, CEO & Founder, EFROS
Updated ·

No enforced DMARC

74.5%

national: 80.1%

p=reject

9.5%

national: 7.5%

Microsoft 365

39.4%

national: 38.1%

M365 + no DMARC (carriers)

1,384

national: 92,822

MTA-STS

3.9%

national: 3.3%

DNSSEC

6.4%

national: 6.1%

Dead domains

230

of 4,971 scanned

Total carriers

6,074

231 with dead domain

Risk bands — Missouri carriers

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

Risk bandScore rangeCarriersDomains
Criticalscore 70+365347
Highscore 50–691,7011,380
Mediumscore 30–492,3802,016
Lowscore 15–291,280944
Minimalscore <1511754

Missouri vs. national average

No enforced DMARC74.5%vs 80.1% national
p=reject adoption9.5%vs 7.5% national
MTA-STS3.9%vs 3.3% national
DNSSEC6.4%vs 6.1% national

What the Missouri numbers actually mean

DMARC posture. Missouri's share of carrier domains with no enforced DMARC sits at 74.5% better than the national average by 5.6 points. Missouri carriers adopt the enforced p=reject DMARC policy at a meaningfully higher rate than the national pool. At the protective end of the distribution, 9.5% of Missouri 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 1,384 M365 carriers in Missouri with DMARC disabled represent the same "paid-for-but-switched-off" pattern that drives the national headline. That share is 22.8% of all Missouri 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 Missouri runs at 6.4% (vs 6.1% national) — meaningful for downstream DKIM and MTA-STS validation, but still a minority signal.

Risk-band shape. Missouri's critical-band share is 6.0% versus 8.4% nationally, with the pressure shifting into the high band (28.0% of state carriers) where one or two control gaps still leave room for impersonation. 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 Missouri-based carriers, the operational exposure is the 74.5%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 Missouri with other states

States closest in carrier-count rank to Missouri. 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.