  The increase in the use of the Internet and web services and the advent of
the fifth generation of cellular network technology (5G) along with
ever-growing Internet of Things (IoT) data traffic will grow global internet
usage. To ensure the security of future networks, machine learning-based
intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) must be implemented to detect
new attacks, and big data parallel processing tools can be used to handle a
huge collection of training data in these systems. In this paper Apache Spark,
a general-purpose and fast cluster computing platform is used for processing
and training a large volume of network traffic feature data. In this work, the
most important features of the CSE-CIC-IDS2018 dataset are used for
constructing machine learning models and then the most popular machine learning
approaches, namely Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine (SVM), three
different Decision Tree Classifiers, and Naive Bayes algorithm are used to
train the model using up to eight number of worker nodes. Our Spark cluster
contains seven machines acting as worker nodes and one machine is configured as
both a master and a worker. We use the CSE-CIC-IDS2018 dataset to evaluate the
overall performance of these algorithms on Botnet attacks and distributed
hyperparameter tuning is used to find the best single decision tree parameters.
We have achieved up to 100% accuracy using selected features by the learning
method in our experiments
