The basis of Microsoft’s security environment lies in Windows NT security features and the technologies that enable them. The BackOffice family of products and other applications take advantage of both. An enabling technology is a set of software libraries that encapsulates certain algorithms or procedures that the operating system makes available to other applications and system services. These enabling technologies can be used by other parts of the operating system and also by applications developed either by Microsoft or independent, third-party developers. Although enabling technologies do not by themselves make your system more secure, they are crucial to assuring a strong, consistent, ongoing stream of security applications for the Windows NT environment.