https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog Taylor Morgan's personal site. Resume, blog posts, developer relations and software engineering stuff. en-us taylormorganttm@gmail.com (Taylor Morgan) taylormorganttm@gmail.com (Taylor Morgan) Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMT https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20260831-securestack-ai-aws-infrastructure https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20260831-securestack-ai-aws-infrastructure The account-level decisions behind deploying SecureStack AI to real ECS and RDS infrastructure: a scoped IAM identity instead of root, two separate permissions boundaries to close a subtle PassRole gap, a compensating IP restriction for a longer-lived demo, and what it actually cost. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMT taylormorganttm@gmail.com (Taylor Morgan) awssecurityiamdeployment https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20260830-securestack-ai-trustworthy https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20260830-securestack-ai-trustworthy Building SecureStack AI taught me that grounding an LLM's answers is the easy part. The real work was a verification layer that checks citations, tool-call evidence, and deterministic scanners so nothing gets trusted just because it sounds confident, plus two AWS deployment gotchas along the way. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMT taylormorganttm@gmail.com (Taylor Morgan) aisecurityllmaws https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20260618-running-local-ai-models-with-ollama https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20260618-running-local-ai-models-with-ollama Everything you need to go from a blank machine to a working local AI setup with Ollama: installation, pulling and running models, the CLI reference, the REST API, and Modelfile customization, all in one place instead of scattered across five doc pages. Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT taylormorganttm@gmail.com (Taylor Morgan) aiollamaself-hostedhow-to https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20230320-verosint-automated-response-and-vera https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20230320-verosint-automated-response-and-vera Detecting account takeover is half the problem. This one covers what Verosint actually does once a login gets flagged, from automated MFA enforcement to VERA, its agentic AI security analyst that handles triage over Slack. Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:00:00 GMT taylormorganttm@gmail.com (Taylor Morgan) securityidentityaccount-takeoververosintautomation https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20230111-how-verosint-detects-account-takeover https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20230111-how-verosint-detects-account-takeover A technical look at how the Verosint platform I worked on as a Developer Relations engineer detects account takeover: unified observability across identity systems, AI-driven risk scoring, and a triage layer built for investigation speed. Wed, 11 Jan 2023 09:00:00 GMT taylormorganttm@gmail.com (Taylor Morgan) securityidentityaccount-takeoververosintapi https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20221005-attack-patterns-behind-account-takeover https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20221005-attack-patterns-behind-account-takeover Account takeover isn't one attack, it's a family of them. A walkthrough of the patterns identity security teams actually watch for: credential stuffing, session hijacking, impossible travel, MFA flooding, and more. Wed, 05 Oct 2022 09:00:00 GMT taylormorganttm@gmail.com (Taylor Morgan) securityidentityaccount-takeoververosint https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20220822-what-makes-account-takeover-different https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20220822-what-makes-account-takeover-different Most breaches start with something broken. Account takeover starts with a login that looks completely normal, which is exactly why it's so hard to catch and so slow to remediate. Mon, 22 Aug 2022 09:00:00 GMT taylormorganttm@gmail.com (Taylor Morgan) securityidentityaccount-takeoververosint https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20211115-porting-inventory-system-to-verse https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20211115-porting-inventory-system-to-verse A first look at Verse's failure-as-value model, effect specifiers, and structured concurrency, walked through by porting a simple key-and-door inventory device into UEFN. Mon, 15 Nov 2021 10:00:00 GMT taylormorganttm@gmail.com (Taylor Morgan) verseuefnepic-gamesgame-development https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20210708-building-your-first-island-in-uefn https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20210708-building-your-first-island-in-uefn The build-test loop I walked new creators through during onboarding: installing UEFN, creating a project, adding your first Verse device, and the compile-drag-playtest cycle you'll repeat for as long as you build in it. Thu, 08 Jul 2021 09:00:00 GMT taylormorganttm@gmail.com (Taylor Morgan) epic-gamesuefnfortniteversehow-to https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20210420-what-creative-2-actually-changed https://taylor-dotcom.netlify.app/blog/20210420-what-creative-2-actually-changed Creative 2.0 isn't a replacement for the original Fortnite Creative toolset, it's a second, deeper layer built on UEFN and Verse that sits alongside it. Here's what actually changed and why the distinction matters for creators deciding where to start. Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:00:00 GMT taylormorganttm@gmail.com (Taylor Morgan) epic-gamesuefnfortniteverse