diff --git a/cloud-iot-direct/requirements.txt b/cloud-iot-direct/requirements.txt
index d6239e7..fbe2ce9 100644
--- a/cloud-iot-direct/requirements.txt
+++ b/cloud-iot-direct/requirements.txt
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ google-api-python-client==1.7.8
 google-auth-httplib2==0.0.3
 google-auth==1.6.2
 google-cloud-pubsub==0.39.1
-pyjwt==1.7.1
+pyjwt==2.4.0
 paho-mqtt==1.4.0