Amazon and Microsoft CEOs among those set to attend major White House cybersecurity meeting

US news outlets report that Satya Nadella, Andy Jassy and Apple's Tim Cook will be among the big names in attendance

Chief executives from leading vendors including Apple, Microsoft and Amazon are set to meet with US president Joe Biden on Wednesday to discuss efforts by private sector companies to improve cybersecurity, according to major news outlets in the country.

Reuters first reported that Amazon's new CEO Andy Jassy was set to attend the meeting, while Bloomberg and CNBC also report that Apple's Tim Cook and Microsoft's Satya Nadella will too be in attendance.

It comes as the scale and regularity of cyber-attacks continues to increase, with large tech companies like Kaseya and Accenture recently being targeted by ransomware, while US industries have been hit hard in cases such as the Solar Winds and Colonial Pipeline hacks.

According to Bloomberg, the chief executives of other large tech companies, banks, energy companies and water utilities including Google, IBM, Southern Co and JPMorgan Chase have also been invited.

Plans for the meeting, which a White House spokesperson said would "discuss how we can work together to collectively improve the nation's cybersecurity", were first announced in July.

"Today more than ever, cybersecurity is an economic security and national security imperative, and both the federal government and the private sector play a critical role," they added at the time.

July also saw the president sign a national security memorandum, launching a new public-private initiative which creates "performance controls" for cybersecurity at America's most critical companies, including water treatment and electrical power plants.