You are the CFO of a sporting goods manufacturer and distributor. Your firm has annual sales exceeding $500 million, with roughly 25 percent of your sales coming from online purchases. Today your firm’s Web site was not operational for about a

You are the CFO of a sporting goods manufacturer and distributor. Your firm has annual sales exceeding $500 million, with roughly 25 percent of your sales coming from online purchases. Today your firm’s Web site was not operational for about an hour. The IT group informed you that the site was the target of a distributed denial-of-service attack. You are shocked by an anonymous call later in the day in which a man tells you that your site will be attacked unmercifully unless you pay him $250,000 to stop the attacks. What do you say to the blackmailer?