diff --git a/data_engineering/requirements_file_upload.txt b/data_engineering/requirements_file_upload.txt
index f51cedd..cbf40ac 100644
--- a/data_engineering/requirements_file_upload.txt
+++ b/data_engineering/requirements_file_upload.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ xlrd>=2.0.1
 pyarrow>=10.0.0
 tables>=3.7.0
 pyreadstat>=1.1.0
-lxml>=4.9.0
+lxml>=6.1.0
 
 # Streamlit enhancements
 streamlit-option-menu>=0.3.0
diff --git a/llm_engineering/requirements_huggingface.txt b/llm_engineering/requirements_huggingface.txt
index 576740e..c3682d2 100644
--- a/llm_engineering/requirements_huggingface.txt
+++ b/llm_engineering/requirements_huggingface.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ huggingface-hub>=0.19.0
 # flmr>=0.1.0
 
 # PyTorch and related
-torch>=2.0.0
+torch>=2.8.0
 torchvision>=0.15.0
 torchaudio>=2.0.0
 
diff --git a/mcp_server/requirements.txt b/mcp_server/requirements.txt
index 90cb70a..b71b650 100644
--- a/mcp_server/requirements.txt
+++ b/mcp_server/requirements.txt
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 fastapi>=0.104.0
 uvicorn[standard]>=0.24.0
 websockets>=12.0
-aiohttp>=3.9.0
+aiohttp>=3.13.4
 
 # Security and authentication
 pyjwt>=2.8.0
-cryptography>=41.0.0
+cryptography>=46.0.7
 python-multipart>=0.0.6
 
 # Data processing
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index df249de..fc8d5cf 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 transformers==4.41.1
-torch==2.3.0
-qiskit==1.0.2
+torch==2.8.0
+qiskit==1.4.2
 numpy==1.26.4
 pandas==2.2.2
 tensorflow==2.16.1
diff --git a/requirements_high_performance.txt b/requirements_high_performance.txt
index 1e474f6..02d4fb0 100644
--- a/requirements_high_performance.txt
+++ b/requirements_high_performance.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ pydantic==2.5.0
 redis==5.0.1
 
 # HTTP client for external API calls
-aiohttp==3.9.1
+aiohttp==3.13.4
 requests==2.31.0
 
 # Data processing and analytics
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ scikit-learn==1.3.2
 
 # Machine learning and NLP
 transformers==4.36.2
-torch==2.1.2
+torch==2.8.0
 sentence-transformers==2.2.2
 
 # Visualization and monitoring
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ flake8==6.1.0
 mypy==1.7.1
 
 # Security
-cryptography==41.0.8
+cryptography==46.0.7
 python-jose[cryptography]==3.3.0
 passlib[bcrypt]==1.7.4
 
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ redis==5.0.1
 
 # Web scraping (for additional verification sources)
 beautifulsoup4==4.12.2
-lxml==4.9.3
+lxml==6.1.0
 
 # API clients
 tweepy==4.14.0
diff --git a/requirements_security.txt b/requirements_security.txt
index 2e38cf5..36cad93 100644
--- a/requirements_security.txt
+++ b/requirements_security.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ passlib[bcrypt]==1.7.4
 python-multipart==0.0.6
 
 # OAuth Support
-authlib==1.2.1
+authlib==1.6.11
 requests==2.31.0
 
 # SAML Support
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ python3-saml==1.16.0
 onelogin==2.0.0
 
 # Encryption and Cryptography
-cryptography==41.0.7
+cryptography==46.0.7
 fernet==1.0.1
 
 # Security Monitoring
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 482f3e1..108c3f6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
     package_dir={"": "src"},
     install_requires=[
         "transformers==4.41.1",
-        "torch==2.3.0",
-        "qiskit==1.0.2",
+        "torch==2.8.0",
+        "qiskit==1.4.2",
         "numpy==1.26.4",
         "pandas==2.2.2",
         "tensorflow==2.16.1",