The Cisco Config Backup Tool is designed to facilitate the end user who likes to be compliance with Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard This is an international information security standard. which provides an actionable framework for developing a robust payment card data security process -- including prevention, detection and appropriate reaction to security incidents.
Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (PCI/DSS) Clause 1.2.2 : Secure and synchronize router configuration files.
Illustration: Verify that router configuration files are secure and Synchronized—for example, running configuration files (used for normal running of the routers) and start-up configuration files (used when machines are re- booted), have the same, secure configurations.
The Cisco Config Backup Tool is a very user friendly tool which will backup all the Cisco devices configuration using Telnet / SSH with in minutes. The user does not need to have Cisco IOS knowledge they just need to provide Level 15 Password to download and backup the Cisco devices configuration.