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My name is David Cenciotti and I was born in Rome in 1975. I'm a freelance Aviation Journalist, Writer, Geek, Expert, Evangelist & Guru. I'm a private pilot, a former 2nd Lt. of the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force, ItAF) and a graduate in Computer Engineering.

As a freelance journalist I’ve been writing since 1996 for major worldwide magazines covering military and civil aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime, and cyberwar.

My work has appeared on Air Forces Monthly, Revista Força Aérea, Fighter Tactics, Combat Aircraft, Aeronautica & Difesa, Airline, RID, Rivista Aeronautica, Airplanes and Tech News Daily, and I'm regularly interviewed by newspapers, televisions and radios.

Find out more information about my articles, books, interviews, citations and reports published all around the world here: http://theaviationist.com/newsstand/
and follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cencio4

My pictures have been used not only to illustrate my articles, but also for magazine’s front covers, squadron and air forces’ calendars, websites, brochures and books.

During my career as a journalist, I have had the opportunity to fly with many aircraft (from supersonic jets to combat helicopters) and I'm one of the few civilians proudly wearing the “1 flight hour on the TF-104” patch to witness my flight with the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter.

I’m the author of four books; among them, the famous best-seller "Frecce Tricolori - an exciting 50 year flight" published by DeAgostini in 2010, the only official book of the Italian Air Force for the 50th Anniversary of the Frecce Tricolori display team.

As an Information Security opinion leader and expert, I have been working for more than 10 years with large organizations analyzing their network architectures, assets, threats, security requirements and procedures, to manage their risks by means of proper countermeasures. I'm a Lead Auditor ISO 27001, ITIL v3 certified, and I have several more professional certifications.

This weblog is a place to talk about Aviation, Defense, Information Security & Cyberwar, and much more.

It gets +5.000 unique visitors each day from all around the world.

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I'm the co-author of "Al lupo, al lupo", the official book for the 80th Anniversary of the 4° Stormo, that was presented to the public at Grosseto airbase, on Sept. 16, 2011.

Click here to read more: Al Lupo! Al Lupo!

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My work, the official book of the Italian Air Force for the 50th Anniversary of the Frecce Tricolori display team is available since Oct. 2010. 128 pages 44 x 30 cm.
Visit this site for more information in the following weeks (copies of the book signed by the author will be available only for copies ordered through this website.
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Il mio nuovo libro, la pubblicazione ufficiale dell'Aeronautica Militare per i 50 anni delle Frecce Tricolori è disponibile a partire dal mese di ottobre 2010. 128 pagine, formato chiuso 44 x 30 cm, copertina rigida con sovracoperta. Visita questo sito per ulteriori informazioni (le copie firmate dall'autore saranno disponibili solo per ordini eseguiti attraverso questo sito).
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Italian Starfighters è il mio ultimo libro sull'F-104 Starfighter. Per maggiori informazioni clicca qui

Italian Starfighters is my latest book on the F-104 Starfighter. For more information click here

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"Operations security (OPSEC) is a process that identifies critical information to determine if friendly actions can be observed by adversary intelligence systems, determines if information obtained by adversaries could be interpreted to be useful to them, and then executes selected measures that eliminate or reduce adversary exploitation of friendly critical information" (Wiki).
Hence, OPSec is to mil ops what, more generally speaking, INFOSec is to information (and information systems). Learn more about INFOSec and its impact on mil operations by visiting the Information Securitysection of this site.
As a journalist belonging to the Italian Journalists Society (Ordine dei Giornalisti) all the information and reports in this site are provided in accordance with a code of ethics based on the freedom of information right (ratified also by the Italian Constitution and made a right of every person by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) that takes into proper consideration OPSec implications and sensitiveness of information. Details on which is deemed sensitive in nature is edited, limited or postponedly published; all the information published on this site are carefully checked and were obtained by interviews, researches, studies and analysis of material whose publication was implicitly or explicitly authorized and/or is in the public domain.

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