diff --git a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
index 80b7d4a..a00c178 100644
--- a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
+++ b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
       <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
-      <version>2.6.1</version>
+      <version>3.16.1</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>