About Fortress

At Fortress, we understand fans; from the die-hards who never miss a game to the millions of others who also follow their teams but live across the world and connect digitally or commercially.

We value and respect the immense power of these fans – all of them – no matter where they are. No matter how they connect. At Fortress, every fan counts.

With 20 years of experience, we are the sports technology company that deeply focuses on the fan. By servicing, connecting and engaging fans in the stadium and beyond, we are able to collect rich data that drives our unrivalled fan engagement, sports loyalty and game-day services.

Proudly partnering with over 140 of the world’s most respected elite sports teams we take pride in developing superior programs – that truly work. Our success rides on the successes of our clients.

Using our unbeatable category expertise, proprietary technology and thought leadership, we forge trusted partnerships with every one of our clients – no matter how large or small. We see every Fortress client as a world-class organization and promise every one of them the same level of outstanding Fortress service. Our reputation means everything.

And with our consultative approach, collaborative work style, and our unwavering commitment, our team delivers the programs, service – and success – our clients deserve.

Our Philosophy. Our Promise

Unrivaled fan services and engagement, through superior expertise, collaboration, and drive. A simple core philosophy, but a challenging promise.

With over 20 years of experience working with the world’s best sports teams, this is not only the Fortress philosophy, it’s our promise to you.

ZK Crypt

Welcome to the world of ZK-Crypt where data communications between the smallest electronic components through to largest international corporations and user’s smart cards are accelerated and secured. If you are developing electronic devices with stored data or need secured communications that are vulnerable to snooping or attack, then the parallel processing, low current ZK-Crypt is for you and your clients.

ZK-Crypt Highlights:

Over 70 Parallel Permutations Maximize Diffusion in each of the 1 to 4 Active 32 bit Engines.
Each Engine has 527 Hard-Working Variables (Flip Flops) each with 4 Disparate Inputs.
Configurable – using the same 1 to 4 ZK-Crypt Engines for Servers & Smart Cards.
Diffusive & Concussive- Each Input Bit affects more than 400 Variables at Each Clock.
Inherent Side Channel Attack Immunity – All 527 Variables must be detected at Every Clock.
Configurable Protocol Authentication to Maximise any Communication Protocol.
AIS 31 All Digital True Noise Generator, with Two Uncorrelated Noise Sources.
Fastest Strongest Password Authentication.
Dual Feedback Precludes Message Modification.

Background

The history of the ZK-Crypt Design Group can be traced back to the 1980′s and 90′s, when the original Fortress U&T Design Group supplied innovative Public Key Encryption technologies (e.g. RSA & Elliptic Curve) to many silicon vendors, including DEC, Samsung and ST Micro. It was these innovative technologies that Fortress GB first exploited with their smart card technologies for transportation, crowd control and universities.

After Fortress U&T was purchased by M-Systems/SanDisk, many engineers and technicians joined their colleagues in Fortress GB and began to create ideas for a new architecture for future long lasting symmetric ciphering and data authentication. Following many man years of development, the result is the ZK‑Crypt family of functions for best of breed True Random Generation, Stream Ciphers and Data Authenticators, ready for efficient implementations.

Designed for a Long Secure Future

Fortress GB is proud to present the ZK‑Crypt. The inventors devised the Dual Track Orthogonal Feedback ZK‑Crypt to be a multi-permutation, high diffusion, compact engine, ready to fend off attacks generated on future generation super and quantum computers.

The ZK-Crypt’s Crypto engines (operating from 0.5 to 200MHz; where an engine processes 32 bits on every clock cycle) are compact hardware modules which can be used in SOC designs to efficiently encrypt, decrypt and authenticate clear and cipher text; or spawn unpredictable on-line provable true random numbers.

The ZK-Crypt engine and protocol have achieved highest marks in the most rigorous crypto-tests: NIST, Maurer, Diehard, Repeated Word, Binary Differentials, Distinguishing & Impossible Features, and demonstrate immunity to Differential and other known Cryptanalytic attack strategies. ZK-Crypt’s mathematical complexity precludes attacks on future quantum or conventional computation platforms.

ZK-Crypt applications include:

Audio and Video Streams – Fixed line and mobile phone calls, video conference, PayTV

Encrypt Data – e.g. hard drive data simultaneous decryption and hash validated

Electronic Components Data – e.g. tamper-proof car Engine Management Units

Internet Communications – FTP, HTTPS, VPN. Runs at up to 100 Gb/s or more…

Patents

System for accepting value from closed groups

US 8504395

A system for facilitating a sequence of events and comprising a data bank loader operative set up for each individual event by loading into an event attendee data bank, IDs and pre-paid balance values, for users expected to attend said individual event and the storing of a user ID, a pre-paid balance, e-cash filling stations and incrementing pre-paid balance of users in an on-site data bank, which can be accessed by mobile service provider workstations according to the user ID of the receptacle being read (which can include a multiplicity of portable receptacles issued to known users) and facilitating a value transaction on the on-site data bank.

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System and methods for encryption with authentication integrity

US 8280056

A data integrity system including a transmitter, having a TX pseudorandom function generator, a TX switching function having a transmitting option and a TX combiner operative to receive, from a Host, an initialization data entity including at least one word.

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Online/offline event related access controlled systems with event specific closed venue wireless applications

US 8333321

Systems and methods for off line/online access controlled environments to implement temporal applications in wireless devices via near field communications in closed group venues; e.g., concert halls, race horse betting, and university scheduling, are disclosed.

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System and methods for venue controlled buy-back and reselling of access privileges and tickets to closed group events

US 8261979

Methods and apparatus for controlling venue buy-back and resale of access privileges to controlled group events limiting third party trading of subscription.

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Accelerated throughput synchronized word stream cipher, message authenticator and zero-knowledge output random number generator

US 7827223

Systems and methods to generate random number strings with a high level of entropy at maximum speed. Particular attention has been paid to maintain maximum correlation immunity, and to maximize non-linearity of the output sequence.

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System and methods for accelerated recognition and processing of personal privilege operative for controlling large closed group environments

US 8056802

Methods and apparatus for controlling physical and virtual access for accelerated recognition and processing of privileges, benefits, value transfers, crowd control, community membership and status, in particular for institutions, arenas and other large venues.

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Pseudo random noise device based on a random frequency modulated oscillator

US 7852162

In this invention an autonomous random frequency modulated oscillator driven by a self-contained pseudo-random number generator outputs three loosely correlated random binary streams. Included in the invention is a hardware method for proving wandering phase differences and also the existence of a coloured random distribution of concatenated nibbles.

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System and method to preclude message modification in data authentication systems through efficient use of feedback in cryptographic functions

US 8107622

A data hashing system operative to hash an incoming string of message words. The system generates a hash value tag comprising a deterministic random number string which uniquely identifies the incoming string.