Steve Marsh, director of the U.K. governmentâ¬(TM)s Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA), has announced that IBM, and its partners Tresys Technology and Belmin Group, are working with the U.K. Cabinet Office to demonstrate one of the first mainstream mandatory access control (MAC) environments. The design is based upon Security Enhanced Linux and IBM WebSphere. The government set out its vision for efficient, customer-centric public services in November 2005 in the document, “Transformational Government: Enabled by Technology.” Given that many of these services would need to be delivered through complex information-supply chains, spanning central government, the wider public sector and private and voluntary sector organisations, the challenge lies in how it can be done securely. Therefore, the ability to be able to contain security breaches, using approaches such as MAC, can be a significant aid in developing systems that deliver the government’s transformational agenda.