Feature extraction and feature selection are the first tasks in
pre-processing of input logs in order to detect cyber security threats and
attacks while utilizing machine learning. When it comes to the analysis of
heterogeneous data derived from different sources, these tasks are found to be
time-consuming and difficult to be managed efficiently. In this paper, we
present an approach for handling feature extraction and feature selection for
security analytics of heterogeneous data derived from different network
sensors. The approach is implemented in Apache Spark, using its python API,
named pyspark.