According to Vincent Weafer (Senior Vice President of Intel Security), analytical capabilities will help you to be ahead of your competitors. Predictive Analytics help you to analyze the future trends more accurately and help you to realize your threats and opportunities which affects budget, purchase and staffing decisions. For prediction, a large amount of data is required from a range of activities which organizations perform, historical events and third party intelligence and to make predictive analytics more effective, you need to build foundational abilities like real-time hunting, prioritization and scoping of security incidents in their environment. You need to analyze your stakeholders for blocking decisions. Read more at: http://www.darkreading.com/partner-perspectives/intel/predictive-analytics-the-future-is-now/a/d-id/1319956