By State / Rhode Island
Rhode Island Trucking Email Security
74.9% of active carrier domains in Rhode Island have no enforced DMARC — leaving freight operators open to email impersonation, payment-redirect fraud, and cargo theft via phishing.
No enforced DMARC
74.9%
national: 80.1%
p=reject
9.0%
national: 7.5%
Microsoft 365
41.2%
national: 38.1%
M365 + no DMARC (carriers)
281
national: 92,822
MTA-STS
3.6%
national: 3.3%
DNSSEC
3.3%
national: 6.1%
Dead domains
45
of 987 scanned
Total carriers
1,069
45 with dead domain
Risk bands — Rhode Island carriers
Carrier counts by risk band (composite email-security pain score). Critical = score 70+; Minimal = score <15.
| Risk band | Score range | Carriers | Domains |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical | score 70+ | 89 | 79 |
| High | score 50–69 | 307 | 286 |
| Medium | score 30–49 | 407 | 383 |
| Low | score 15–29 | 208 | 182 |
| Minimal | score <15 | 13 | 12 |
Rhode Island vs. national average
What the Rhode Island numbers actually mean
DMARC posture. Rhode Island's share of carrier domains with no enforced DMARC sits at 74.9% — better than the national average by 5.2 points. Rhode Island carriers adopt the enforced p=reject DMARC policy at a meaningfully higher rate than the national pool. At the protective end of the distribution, 9.0% of Rhode Island domains are at p=reject — the only DMARC policy that actually instructs receivers to drop spoofed mail.
Microsoft 365 surface. Microsoft 365 mailflow adoption is heavier than the national distribution, which is consequential — every M365 tenant already includes the controls needed to enforce DMARC, so the 281 M365 carriers in Rhode Island with DMARC disabled are leaving paid-for protection switched off. That share is 26.3% of all Rhode Island 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 3.6%, materially below the threshold a freight payment-redirect attacker would have to clear to be inconvenienced by transport-layer policy. DNSSEC adoption in Rhode Island runs at 3.3% (vs 6.1% national) — meaningful for downstream DKIM and MTA-STS validation, but still a minority signal.
Risk-band shape. Rhode Island's critical and high bands combine to 37.0% of state carriers — close to the national distribution, meaning remediation prioritization here should follow the same shape as the national program. 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 Rhode Island-based carriers, the operational exposure is the 74.9%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 Rhode Island with other states
States closest in carrier-count rank to Rhode Island. 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.