| By Frank Gardner Security correspondent, BBC News |
Nato officials have told the BBC their computers are under constant attack from organisations and individuals bent on trying to hack into their secrets.
The attacks keep coming despite the establishment of a co-ordinated cyber defence policy with a quick-reaction cyber team on permanent standby.
The cyber defence policy was set up after a wave of cyber attacks on Nato member Estonia in 2007, and more recent attacks on Georgia - so what are they defending against and how do they do it?
Tower of Babel
Nato's operational headquarters in Mons is a low, drab three-storey building - part of a sprawling complex set in rolling farmland south of Brussels.
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The blue and white flag of the 26-nation alliance flutters in the cold breeze alongside the spangled banner of the EU.
Inside the canteen it is like a Tower of Babel with almost every language of Europe competing to be heard above the clatter of trays and dishes.
Our escort, a German army officer in immaculate uniform, leads us down a corridor to a hushed room where 20 or so military analysts sit hunched over computers; their desert boots and camouflage fatigues strangely out of place for a windowless room in Belgium.
This, explains Chris Evis, is the Incident Management Section, which he heads.
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