By Cargo / Oilfield Equipment
Oilfield Equipment Carriers — Email Security
77.1% of active oilfield equipment carrier domains have no enforced DMARC — leaving this segment open to email impersonation, payment-redirect fraud, and cargo theft via phishing.
No enforced DMARC
77.1%
national: 80.1%
p=reject
9.3%
national: 7.5%
Microsoft 365
40.4%
national: 38.1%
M365 + no DMARC (carriers)
1,984
national: 92,822
MTA-STS
3.7%
national: 3.3%
DNSSEC
6.1%
national: 6.1%
Dead domains
552
of 7,175 scanned
Total carriers
8,085
552 with dead domain
Risk bands — Oilfield Equipment 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+ | 608 | 564 |
| High | score 50–69 | 2,276 | 2,009 |
| Medium | score 30–49 | 3,155 | 2,806 |
| Low | score 15–29 | 1,412 | 1,182 |
| Minimal | score <15 | 82 | 62 |
Oilfield Equipment vs. national average
What the Oilfield Equipment numbers actually mean
Segment exposure framing. Oilfield-equipment carriers move on rig-completion timelines where a missed delivery cascades into rig-day costs measured in five figures per day.
DMARC posture. The oilfield equipmentsegment's share of carrier domains with no enforced DMARC sits at 77.1% — better than the national average by 3.0 points. Oilfield Equipment carriers adopt enforced p=reject DMARC at a meaningfully higher rate than the national pool. At the protective end of the distribution, 9.3% of segment domains are at p=reject — the only DMARC policy that actually instructs receivers to drop spoofed mail.
Microsoft 365 surface. Microsoft 365 mailflow adoption runs heavier than the national distribution, which is consequential — every M365 tenant already includes the controls needed to enforce DMARC, so the 1,984 M365 carriers in this segment with DMARC disabled are leaving paid-for protection switched off. That share is 24.5% of all oilfield equipment carriers — a one-flag-flip remediation set that segment-specific MSPs can clear in a single quarter without touching DNS infrastructure.
Transport encryption. MTA-STS adoption sits at 3.7%, materially below the threshold a freight payment-redirect attacker would have to clear to be inconvenienced by transport-layer policy. DNSSEC adoption across oilfield equipment carriers runs at 6.1% (vs 6.1% national).
Risk-band shape. Oilfield Equipment's critical-band share is 7.5% versus 8.4% nationally, with the pressure shifting into the high band (28.2% of segment carriers) where one or two control gaps still leave room for impersonation.
Best-practice control for this segment. Operators dispatching oilfield equipment should require DMARC-verified mail and treat carrier email-security posture as part of the same vendor-management discipline as DOT and rig-pad safety compliance.
Compare Oilfield Equipment with other cargo segments
Segments closest in carrier-count rank to Oilfield Equipment. Each is scored on the same DNS-derived control set, so the comparison is apples-to-apples.
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Data as of 2026-05-20 from public DNS measurements. Statistics are domain-weighted unless noted. Cargo segment membership is based on FMCSA Company Census cargo flags. Methodology: read the full index.