Upgrade your Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
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Flexibility and choice power security resilience with Cisco ISE version 3.3 
Unlock key new features and functionality introduced in the latest release
- Rapidly deploy Network Access Control workloads across multiple clouds
- Experience pervasive visibility and dynamic control into users and endpoints connecting to network resources
- Built in zero-trust policy decision points to the network
- Enhanced visibility with AI-powered capabilities to enable policy enforcement points for continuous trusted access
- Remove threats with integrated intelligence to close visibility gaps within the network
- Move Ops from managing infrastructure in a box to infrastructure in code (IaC) with automated deployments to accelerate secure network access
- Ability to support more than two million concurrent endpoint sessions
- Includes TACACS+ for role-based administrative access control to networking equipment
Prepare for your upgrade to Cisco ISE version 3.3
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Determine the path to upgrade based on your current version.
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Explore the Cisco ISE upgrade journey to get step-by-step guidance to upgrade from your current Cisco ISE version to the gold star version, 3.3.
Step 1
Migrate your licenses to the 3.x licensing structure
Step 2
Prepare for your upgrade
Step 3
Perform the upgrade
Choose your upgrade sequence of Cisco ISE nodes and upgrade methods.
Step 4
Install the latest patch of your current release
Step 5
Perform post-upgrade task
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