President Joe Biden on Wednesday will host some of the biggest names in business at a White House summit on cyber security issues as he enlists the private sector to help his administration combat malicious online attacks.

JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon, Apple's Tim Cook, Google's Sundar Pichai, Amazon's Andy Jassy and Microsoft's Satya Nadella are some those scheduled to attend the meeting, which a senior administration official described as a 'call to action.'  

'The federal government can't solve this complex, growing international challenge alone, and we can't do it overnight,' the official told reporters on a briefing call Tuesday night.   

Representatives from the tech, financial, energy, education and insurance sectors will be at the event. 

At the summit, the administration will ask the private industry to help them to address the 'root causes of any kind of malicious cyber activity,' the official said.

The summit comes after several companies have faced ransomware attacks, in some cases extorting multi-million-dollar payments from major corporations. Colonial Pipeline, JBS Holdings and Microsoft have all been subject to malicious cyber attacks in the past year. The SolarWinds attack last year affected several government agencies. 

The meeting also comes as Congress is weighing a crack down on Big Tech. 

A legislative package approved in June by the House Judiciary Committee is aimed at overhauling U.S. antitrust laws and reeling in the power of the tech companies.