President Biden met Wednesday with top executives from some of the country's leading technology and financial institutions including Apple, Amazon, Google parent Alphabet, IBM, Microsoft and Automatic Data Processing.

It comes as the White House urges the private sector to help toughen cyber security defenses against increasingly sophisticated attacks.

The summit comes during a relentless stretch of ransomware attacks that have targeted critical infrastructure.

Besides that though Wednesday’s gathering also took a broader look at cyber security and centered on identifying the “root causes of malicious cyber activities”and ways in which the private sector can help bolster cybersecurity.