Even in today’s online world, marketing collateral management—the production, storage and distribution of printed materials that promote a company’s products and services—is still a critical discipline. While these materials can take many forms—data sheets, brochures, white papers, technical documentation, educational tools and many more—how you manage them must be consistent, organized and logical to ensure they convey the right message about your organization.

If you’re like most Marketing departments, your team has probably evolved into a group of glorified order takers—the go-to source for other departments looking for help with events, collateral, promos, onboarding kits, and other special projects.

In-person events are making a huge comeback. Whether it’s pent-up demand following the COVID-19 lockdown or simply an effort by companies to leverage every possible opportunity to find and engage with prospects and customers, we’ve seen a significant uptick in requests for event assistance.

If your business is like most, you probably have a marketing portal—a system that allows you to store, manage, organize, share and track massive amounts of sensitive company data and content.  This could include everything from documentation and collateral to videos, photos, logos, proprietary software, and other tangible assets that internal teams as well as external partners can access, download and distribute.  Since partners are sometimes required to purchase materials, the system also processes and stores credit card information.

That’s a lot of sensitive information.  And it begs the question: just how secure is your marketing portal?