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October 21, 2026

Brand Portals Security Updates, Plus Fewer Duplicate Uploads

Brand Portals: Increased security with Magic Links, DRM and forensic watermarking

You can now require recipients to open a portal with a magic link, so access runs through the email address you sent the portal to rather than a link anyone can forward. DRM and forensic watermarking also now work for protected assets added to a portal, so the protection you set up for shares applies to portals too.

Iconik Agent checksumming: catch duplicates before they upload

The Agent can now checksum your files before it uploads them, so you decide what happens when a file already exists in Iconik: merge it into the existing asset, or skip the upload and add a reference to the existing file in your upload collection. Local checksumming is an opt-in setting in the Agent. The checksum is also stored with the file, so when an upload happens before a storage scan, the two can be matched up as one asset.

Custom Actions: one action, several contexts, and a color of your own

  • Custom Actions for several contexts at once: When you create a custom action, you can now choose more than one context for it, such as assets and collections. Iconik creates an action for each context you select, with the same settings applied to all of them, so you set it up once and it's ready everywhere you need it. Each action then appears in your custom actions list, where you can edit or remove it on its own.
  • Color customization for Custom Actions icons: You can now give each Custom Action's bubble icon its own color, on the Custom Actions page and in the context menu. Color is a first step toward making custom actions easier to identify and differentiate quickly, and we'll follow it with more ways to organize them soon!

New Role Groups: Publish and Brand Portals

  • Publish: Role Groups now include a Publish role block. Add it to a role group and everyone in that group has the roles they need for end-to-end Publish workflows, from publishing assets to social and digital destinations through to managing posts. It makes bringing a new publishing team on board a single step.
  • Brand Portals: Role Groups now include a Brand Portals role block. Add it to a role group and everyone in that group has the roles they need to work with portals, including permission to use themes in portals. Because that includes theme permission, enabling the block also partially enables the Themes grouping. It makes bringing a new portal team on board a single step.


📍Availability:

  • Brand Portals are available to all users on Pro and Enterprise. Enterprise accounts get unlimited portals, and Pro accounts include 10 portals, with additional portals available as an add-on.
  • DRM and forensic watermarking on portals requires the DRM and Forensic Watermarking add-on, so contact your CSM to add it to your domain.
  • Agent local checksumming is available to all Iconik users who want it, as an opt-in setting.
  • Custom actions on multiple contexts, and icon colors, are available to all Iconik users.