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To address this, an efficient security mechanism for dealing with the threat and detecting attacks is necessary. The proposed hybrid optimization approach combines Spider Monkey Optimization (SMO) and Hierarchical Particle Swarm Optimization (HPSO) to handle the huge amount of intrusion data classification problems and improve detection accuracy by minimizing false alarm rates. After finding the best optimum values, the Random Forest Classifier (RFC) was used to classify attacks from the NSL-KDD and UNSW-NB 15 datasets. The SVM model obtained accuracy of 91.82%, DT of 98.99%, and RFC of 99.13%, and the proposed model obtained 99.175% for the NSL-KDD dataset. Similarly, SVM obtained accuracy of 85.88%, DT of 88.87%, RFC of 91.65%, and the proposed model obtained 99.18% for the UNSW NB-15 dataset. 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