Go to any security conference and you’ll be quick to discover that getting “buy-in” and maintaining a “seat at the table” are still the predominant concerns among security leaders. After all, unlike other business units that bring in revenue directly, corporate security must show that it is not merely a cost center but a cost- (and sometimes a life-) saver. While security departments have gotten creative about showing their worth, intelligence teams have had a harder time quantifying value. It is time that both analysts and the enterprises they are part of realize that intelligence can contribute to return on investment (ROI) at the corporate strategy level, sometimes in ways that corporate security has thus far been unable to.