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title: "Utah Trucking Email Security — 78.9% lack DMARC | EFROS"
description: "Email-security posture of 5,271 active motor carriers in Utah. 78.9% of domains have no enforced DMARC, 7.7% use p=reject. Free, public, source-cited."
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# Utah Trucking Email Security

**78.9%** of active carrier domains in Utah have no enforced DMARC. That leaves freight operators open to email impersonation, payment-redirect fraud, and cargo theft via phishing.

Edition: 2026-Q2 State rank: #24 Carriers: 5,271 Domains: 4,479

By [Stefan Efros](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanefros-cyberdefense/), CEO & Founder, EFROS

Updated · May 19, 2026

No enforced DMARC

78.9%

national: 80.1%

p=reject

7.7%

national: 7.5%

Microsoft 365

33.7%

national: 38.1%

M365 + no DMARC (carriers)

1,045

national: 92,822

MTA-STS

3.2%

national: 3.3%

DNSSEC

6.5%

national: 6.1%

Dead domains

286

of 4,479 scanned

Total carriers

5,271

287 with dead domain

## Risk bands — Utah 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+ | 578 | 527 |
| High | score 50–69 | 1,567 | 1,297 |
| Medium | score 30–49 | 1,997 | 1,675 |
| Low | score 15–29 | 804 | 661 |
| Minimal | score

## Utah vs. national average

No enforced DMARC 78.9% vs 80.1% national

p=reject adoption 7.7% vs 7.5% national

MTA-STS 3.2% vs 3.3% national

DNSSEC 6.5% vs 6.1% national

## What the Utah numbers actually mean

**DMARC posture.** Utah's share of carrier domains with no enforced DMARC sits at **78.9%**, within 1.2 points of the national average. enforced p=reject DMARC adoption is roughly in line with the national pool: most Utah domains either have no DMARC at all or are stuck at the monitor-only p=none policy. At the protective end of the distribution, 7.7% of Utah domains are at p=reject, the only DMARC policy that actually instructs receivers to drop spoofed mail.

**Microsoft 365 surface.** Microsoft 365 mailflow adoption sits below the national rate, which shifts the remediation surface toward self-hosted and Google Workspace estates where DMARC has to be configured at the DNS layer rather than flipped on in a tenant policy. That share is **19.8%** of all Utah 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 3.2%, materially below the threshold a freight payment-redirect attacker would have to clear to be inconvenienced by transport-layer policy. DNSSEC adoption in Utah runs at **6.5%** (vs 6.1% national), which matters for downstream DKIM and MTA-STS validation but is still a minority signal.

**Risk-band shape.** 11.0% of Utah carriers sit in the critical risk band (score 70+), above the national share of 8.4%. 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 Utah-based carriers, the operational exposure is the 78.9%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 Utah with other states

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

[### Iowa Rank #2373.0% no DMARC · 5,584 carriers](https://efros.com/research/us-trucking-email-security-index/by-state/iowa/) [### Missouri Rank #2574.5% no DMARC · 6,074 carriers](https://efros.com/research/us-trucking-email-security-index/by-state/missouri/) [### Arizona Rank #2279.5% no DMARC · 6,280 carriers](https://efros.com/research/us-trucking-email-security-index/by-state/arizona/) [### Oklahoma Rank #2678.5% no DMARC · 4,697 carriers](https://efros.com/research/us-trucking-email-security-index/by-state/oklahoma/) [### Oregon Rank #2177.5% no DMARC · 5,752 carriers](https://efros.com/research/us-trucking-email-security-index/by-state/oregon/)

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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](https://efros.com/research/us-trucking-email-security-index/).
