A MIN-TPN-Based Remote Disaster Recovery and Backup Scheme of Power Industrial Control System in Nuclear Power Plants

Abstract

Nuclear power plants are important industrial production facilities whose safety issues can have disastrous consequences for the social environment. With the deep fusion of industrialization and information, the nuclear power control system is gradually transformed into automatic digital systems. Such development improves the production efficiency and economic benefits, but introduce the security problem from traditional IT systems into industrial control systems. However, the existing power industrial control system of nuclear power plant mainly adopts firewall, anti-virus software, network gate and other passive security strategies, which lack the safety of active. Besides, only part of the data can be backed up locally and the remote backup is completed manually by operators regularly. The security of industrial control systems cannot be guaranteed and real-time remote backup cannot be realized. In this paper, we analyze and summarize the characteristics of industrial control systems used in nuclear power plants. Then we propose a Truly Private Network (TPN) for nuclear power plants based on the Multi-identifier network (MIN), which integrates blockchain, cryptography, and other security mechanisms to provide a trusted environment. Lastly, we build a network remote real-time backup scheme based on Mimic distributed storage technology providing data tamper-resistance and traceability for nuclear power plants.