By State / South Dakota
South Dakota Trucking Email Security
72.2% of active carrier domains in South Dakota have no enforced DMARC. That leaves freight operators open to email impersonation, payment-redirect fraud, and cargo theft via phishing.
No enforced DMARC
72.2%
national: 80.1%
p=reject
10.3%
national: 7.5%
Microsoft 365
43.1%
national: 38.1%
M365 + no DMARC (carriers)
351
national: 92,822
MTA-STS
4.0%
national: 3.3%
DNSSEC
4.8%
national: 6.1%
Dead domains
27
of 1,114 scanned
Total carriers
1,945
27 with dead domain
Risk bands — South Dakota 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+ | 85 | 81 |
| High | score 50–69 | 458 | 255 |
| Medium | score 30–49 | 758 | 507 |
| Low | score 15–29 | 596 | 226 |
| Minimal | score <15 | 21 | 18 |
South Dakota vs. national average
What the South Dakota numbers actually mean
DMARC posture. South Dakota's share of carrier domains with no enforced DMARC sits at 72.2%, better than the national average by 7.9 points. South Dakota carriers adopt the enforced p=reject DMARC policy at a meaningfully higher rate than the national pool. At the protective end of the distribution, 10.3% of South Dakota 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. Every M365 tenant already includes the controls needed to enforce DMARC, so the 351 M365 carriers in South Dakota with DMARC disabled are leaving paid-for protection switched off. That share is 18.0% of all South Dakota 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 4.0%, materially below the threshold a freight payment-redirect attacker would have to clear to be inconvenienced by transport-layer policy. DNSSEC adoption in South Dakota runs at 4.8% (vs 6.1% national), which matters for downstream DKIM and MTA-STS validation but is still a minority signal.
Risk-band shape. South Dakota's critical-band share is 4.4% versus 8.4% nationally, with the pressure shifting into the high band (23.5% 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 South Dakota-based carriers, the operational exposure is the 72.2%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 South Dakota with other states
States closest in carrier-count rank to South Dakota. 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.