GhostTrace LLC — Security Awareness Training for Small Businesses
GhostTrace LLC is a Georgia-based security awareness training and cybersecurity practice (Control No. 26142915), run by founder Daniel Upperman. We run live security awareness training that keeps small businesses insured and compliant.
Who is GhostTrace LLC?
GhostTrace LLC is owned and founded by Daniel Upperman. The company is registered in Georgia, USA with Georgia Control Number 26142915. Founded in 2026, GhostTrace's primary service is live security awareness training for small businesses, producing the documented completion records cyber insurers and regulators require. GhostTrace also provides incident documentation support, exposure monitoring, business and domain due diligence, impersonation takedown packaging, and digital safety reviews. Ethics complaints are reviewed directly by the founder under our published Ethics Complaint process. This is not a law enforcement agency. We do not conduct unauthorized hacking, surveillance, or data theft. We use only legal, public-source research methods, and we do not research individuals.
Founder Details
Founder & Owner: Daniel Upperman | Email: Founder@ghosttrace.net | Company: GhostTrace LLC | Location: Georgia, USA | Registration: Control No. 26142915
GhostTrace isn't a private investigator, a law firm, or law enforcement, and doesn't locate, profile, or run background checks on people.
Daniel Upperman founded GhostTrace LLC in 2026 to help people affected by online fraud, impersonation, and digital abuse document what happened and figure out what to do next. GhostTrace is one person; every request is handled directly by Daniel.
Ethics & Compliance
Ethics complaints come straight to the founder: complaint reviews, policy compliance, and research standards. File a concern via our Ethics Complaint form.
Business registration
GhostTrace LLC is a registered Georgia limited liability company (Control No. 26142915, status Active), formed June 25, 2026. Full registration and registered-agent details are on the Legal page.
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Services
Security awareness training (primary service): live training for small business teams on phishing, invoice fraud, and safe operational practices, with completion certificates and an insurer-ready completion report.
Incident documentation support: help producing the documented records insurers and regulators require after an incident.
Exposure monitoring for your business's own domain, brand terms, and executive identifiers.
Business & domain due diligence on entities and infrastructure using only publicly available information. We do not research individuals.
Impersonation documentation: a platform-ready evidence package when your brand or a team member is being impersonated.
Digital safety review: an audit of your website, email, and domain security, with prioritized fixes.
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This is a sample report placeholder. It illustrates the intended structure for a GhostTrace-authored phishing landscape report. No data, statistic, or finding below is real — this page exists solely to outline the planned scope before original research is complete.
Intended scope
A completed Phishing Landscape Report would examine current phishing pretexts and delivery methods observed through GhostTrace casework and lawful OSINT research, with a focus on patterns relevant to individuals and small businesses specifically — a segment underrepresented in most enterprise-focused threat reporting.
Planned sections
Methodology — sourcing and verification approach, and what's out of scope.
Pretext analysis — the framing and urgency tactics observed in real cases (e.g., impersonated executives, fake invoices, account-verification lures), described structurally without disclosing any client-identifying details.
Delivery channel trends — how the balance between email, SMS, and social-platform-based phishing has shifted.
Technical indicators — patterns in infrastructure reuse, spoofing techniques, and detection evasion observed across cases.
Recommendations — practical, evidence-based defensive guidance drawn directly from the findings, not generic advice.
Why this is a placeholder
Publishing invented phishing statistics would undermine the credibility this report is meant to build. This page will be replaced with the completed report once there's genuine research behind it — not before.
Contact GhostTrace if you'd like to be notified when this report is published.
