If you want to do any of the good things in ePCT, you have to be logged in using two-factor authentication (“2FA”). (WIPO chooses to call this “strong authentication”.) One of the nice things is that WIPO offers several distinct kinds of 2FA that a user can choose from. Now WIPO has added yet another option for a type of 2FA that users can use. The newly added option is something they call “push notification”. It uses something called the ForgeRock Authenticator app. I think that many ePCT users will find this new “push notification” type of 2FA to be extremely quick and convenient and will end up choosing to use this kind of 2FA to the exclusion of all of the other kinds of 2FA. In this blog article:
- I will briefly describe this new “push notification” approach,
- I will explain how to install it and set it up,
- I will briefly remind the reader of the three other types of 2FA that WIPO offers for use with ePCT, listing a few factors for comparison among the four approaches for 2FA, and then
- I will talk about what I think are the best and smartest ways to use this new “push notification” approach.
If you have tried the ForgeRock Authenticator app with ePCT, please post a comment below.
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