An industrial virus propagation model based on SCADA system

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are widely used in the national infrastructure. As more and more SCADA systems have been connected to the Internet, SCADA systems are facing great network security threats, especially attacks from industrial viruses. This paper aims to propose a novel mathematical model of industrial viruses propagation over SCADA systems. Then, the existence and stability of the equilibrium point of this model are studied. To better control the spread of this virus with limited resources, an optimal control system is established for the model. Then, the existence of optimal control is proved, and the corresponding optimal control system is derived. Numerical simulation results show that our proposed control method can effectively control the spread of industrial viruses.