Upgrade your Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

Learn more about the newest version, upgrading best practices, and key resources to assist in your Cisco ISE upgrade.

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Flexibility and choice power security resilience with Cisco ISE version 3.2 Star

Unlock key new features and functionality introduced in the latest release

Achieve security resilience for the self-managed infrastructure.
  • Rapidly deploy Network Access Control workloads across multiple clouds
  • Experience pervasive visibility and dynamic control into users and endpoints connecting to network resources
Experience a platform approach to secure network access and zero trust.
  • 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
Accelerate your time to value.
  • 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 3.2

Cisco ISE release notes

Explore release dates, version guides, and key features.

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Choose your upgrade path

Determine the path to upgrade based on your current version.

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Cisco ISE software download

Ready to begin your upgrade? Download the required software now.

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How much time does it take to upgrade?

Plan your upgrade with these time estimates based on your current version.

Get started

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, 3.2.

Step 1

Migrate your licenses to the 3.x licensing structure

Complete these license migrations steps.

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Step 4

Install the latest patch of your current release

Follow these software patch installation guidelines.

Step 5

Get help from an expert

For an ISE health check or 1:1 consultation with a Cisco expert, please connect with your Cisco account team or attend the following Ask the Experts session below.

Featured session: ISE Upgrade

Resources

Cisco ISE End-User Resources

Read the ISE licensing migration guide

End-of-Life and End-of-Sale notices

Explore the Cisco ISE youtube channel

Cisco Community

Engage in Community

Review the below ISE upgrade communities post to find key upgrade resources or start a discuss to receive help from an ISE expert.

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