Recently, Capital One discovered a breach in their system that compromised Social Security numbers of about 140,000 credit card customers along with 80,000 bank account numbers. The breach also exposed names, addresses, phone numbers and credit scores, among other data. What makes this breach even more disconcerting is Capital One has been the poster child for cloud adoption and most, if not all, of their applications are hosted in the cloud. They were one of the first financial companies - a very technologically conservative industry -- to adopt the cloud and have always maintained the cloud has been a critical enabler of their business success by providing incredible IT agility and competitive strengths. So, does this mean companies should rethink their cloud adoption? In two words: hell o! The agility and economic value of cloud are intact and accelerating. Leading edge companies will continue to adopt the cloud and SaaS technologies. The breach does, however, put a finer...