diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable-deps-bom/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bigtable-deps-bom/pom.xml
index 83414f36b..f0590b0de 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable-deps-bom/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable-deps-bom/pom.xml
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
     <google.auth.version>0.20.0</google.auth.version>
     <google-http-client.version>1.34.2</google-http-client.version>
     <!-- make sure to update the grpc version in README -->
-    <grpc.version>1.28.0</grpc.version>
+    <grpc.version>1.28.1</grpc.version>
     <guava.version>28.2-android</guava.version>
     <opencensus.version>0.26.0</opencensus.version>
     <protobuf.version>3.11.4</protobuf.version>