By State / Washington
Washington Trucking Email Security
78.0% of active carrier domains in Washington have no enforced DMARC. That leaves freight operators open to email impersonation, payment-redirect fraud, and cargo theft via phishing.
No enforced DMARC
78.0%
national: 80.1%
p=reject
8.5%
national: 7.5%
Microsoft 365
41.3%
national: 38.1%
M365 + no DMARC (carriers)
2,989
national: 92,822
MTA-STS
4.4%
national: 3.3%
DNSSEC
5.2%
national: 6.1%
Dead domains
692
of 9,905 scanned
Total carriers
11,961
695 with dead domain
Risk bands — Washington 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+ | 1,048 | 939 |
| High | score 50–69 | 3,198 | 2,614 |
| Medium | score 30–49 | 4,900 | 3,980 |
| Low | score 15–29 | 2,014 | 1,595 |
| Minimal | score <15 | 106 | 85 |
Washington vs. national average
What the Washington numbers actually mean
DMARC posture. Washington's share of carrier domains with no enforced DMARC sits at 78.0%, better than the national average by 2.1 points. enforced p=reject DMARC adoption is roughly in line with the national pool: most Washington 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 Washington 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 2,989 M365 carriers in Washington with DMARC disabled are leaving paid-for protection switched off. That share is 25.0% of all Washington 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 (the encrypted-transport policy that prevents DNS-downgrade interception) runs above the national rate, but the absolute floor is still under 9%, well short of where freight payment flows should sit. DNSSEC adoption in Washington runs at 5.2% (vs 6.1% national), which matters for downstream DKIM and MTA-STS validation but is still a minority signal.
Risk-band shape. Washington's critical and high bands combine to 35.5% of state carriers, close to the national distribution, so 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 Washington-based carriers, the operational exposure is the 78.0%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 Washington with other states
States closest in carrier-count rank to Washington. 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.