As you may have noticed, I've had that widget promoting free security magazines and whitepapers through Tradepub.  This is a great site that you can go to and get free subscriptions to all sorts of magazines like Network World, Security Magazine, and Dr. Dobb's Journal, among many more,  There is also a plethora of free whitepapers, webcasts, newsletters, case studies, etc all for free.  This is how I get all my trade publications.  Not only can you get all the IT related material you want, there are lots of other categories with free subscriptions to trade publications for those areas as well.  Oh, and recently Electronic Gaming Monthly started offering free subscriptions there.

One of my favorite magazines is absolutely free all the time, its called INSECURE magazine.  This is one of the better security publications I've ever read.  It is packed full of great information regarding practices, software, information security management, and lots of other security and network related articles.  It is only released bi-monthly so there's a while to wait between issues but there are 16 issues to keep you occupied till the next one comes out.

There is alot of great info to be found in both these resources and you should use them to your advantage.  The more you read and the more you learn, the better equipped you are.