diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index e87e594..e348a85 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
     "js-yaml": "~3.7.0",
     "newrelic": "~1.34.0",
     "node-insights": "^1.0.15",
-    "request": "~2.79.0",
+    "request": "~2.81.0",
     "simple-statistics": "~2.2.0",
     "tv4": "^1.2.7"
   },