diff --git a/bandit.yaml b/bandit.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6f6be38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bandit.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+# optional: after how many files to update progress
+#show_progress_every: 100
+
+# optional: plugins directory name
+#plugins_dir: 'plugins'
+
+# optional: plugins discovery name pattern
+plugin_name_pattern: '*.py'
+
+# optional: terminal escape sequences to display colors
+#output_colors:
+#    DEFAULT: '\033[0m'
+#    HEADER: '\033[95m'
+#    INFO: '\033[94m'
+#    WARN: '\033[93m'
+#    ERROR: '\033[91m'
+
+# optional: log format string
+#log_format: "[%(module)s]\t%(levelname)s\t%(message)s"
+
+# globs of files which should be analyzed
+include:
+    - '*.py'
+    - '*.pyw'
+
+# a list of strings, which if found in the path will cause files to be excluded
+# for example /tests/ - to remove all all files in tests directory
+exclude_dirs:
+    - '/tests/'
+
+profiles:
+ pykmip:
+        include:
+            - blacklist_calls
+            - blacklist_imports
+            - request_with_no_cert_validation
+            - exec_used
+            - set_bad_file_permissions
+            - subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true
+            - any_other_function_with_shell_equals_true
+            - linux_commands_wildcard_injection
+            - ssl_with_bad_version
+            - ssl_with_bad_defaults
+
+
+blacklist_calls:
+    bad_name_sets:
+        - pickle:
+            qualnames: [pickle.loads, pickle.load, pickle.Unpickler,
+                        cPickle.loads, cPickle.load, cPickle.Unpickler]
+            message: "Pickle library appears to be in use, possible security issue."
+        - marshal:
+            qualnames: [marshal.load, marshal.loads]
+            message: "Deserialization with the marshal module is possibly dangerous."
+        - md5:
+            qualnames: [hashlib.md5]
+            message: "Use of insecure MD5 hash function."
+        - mktemp_q:
+            qualnames: [tempfile.mktemp]
+            message: "Use of insecure and deprecated function (mktemp)."
+        - eval:
+            qualnames: [eval]
+            message: "Use of possibly insecure function - consider using safer ast.literal_eval."
+        - mark_safe:
+            names: [mark_safe]
+            message: "Use of mark_safe() may expose cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and should be reviewed."
+        - httpsconnection:
+            qualnames: [httplib.HTTPSConnection]
+            message: "Use of HTTPSConnection does not provide security, see https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OSSN/OSSN-0033"
+        - yaml_load:
+            qualnames: [yaml.load]
+            message: "Use of unsafe yaml load. Allows instantiation of arbitrary objects. Consider yaml.safe_load()."
+        - urllib_urlopen:
+            qualnames: [urllib.urlopen, urllib.urlretrieve, urllib.URLopener, urllib.FancyURLopener, urllib2.urlopen, urllib2.Request]
+            message: "Audit url open for permitted schemes. Allowing use of file:/ or custom schemes is often unexpected."
+
+
+shell_injection:
+    # Start a process using the subprocess module, or one of its wrappers.
+    subprocess: [subprocess.Popen, subprocess.call, subprocess.check_call,
+                 subprocess.check_output, utils.execute, utils.execute_with_timeout]
+    # Start a process with a function vulnerable to shell injection.
+    shell: [os.system, os.popen, os.popen2, os.popen3, os.popen4,
+            popen2.popen2, popen2.popen3, popen2.popen4, popen2.Popen3,
+            popen2.Popen4, commands.getoutput, commands.getstatusoutput]
+    # Start a process with a function that is not vulnerable to shell injection.
+    no_shell: [os.execl, os.execle, os.execlp, os.execlpe, os.execv,os.execve,
+               os.execvp, os.execvpe, os.spawnl, os.spawnle, os.spawnlp,
+               os.spawnlpe, os.spawnv, os.spawnve, os.spawnvp, os.spawnvpe,
+               os.startfile]
+
+
+blacklist_imports:
+    bad_import_sets:
+        - telnet:
+            imports: [telnetlib]
+            level: ERROR
+            message: "Telnet is considered insecure. Use SSH or some other encrypted protocol."
+
+
+ssl_with_bad_version:
+    bad_protocol_versions:
+        - 'PROTOCOL_SSLv2'
+        - 'SSLv2_METHOD'
+        - 'SSLv23_METHOD'
+        - 'PROTOCOL_SSLv3'  # strict option
+        - 'PROTOCOL_TLSv1'  # strict option
+        - 'SSLv3_METHOD'    # strict option
+        - 'TLSv1_METHOD'    # strict option
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 5135f64..d29fe91 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ mock
 testscenarios
 testrepository
 sphinx
+bandit
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 391c925..1fa7214 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -20,5 +20,9 @@ basepython=python2.7
 commands =
     py.test --strict kmip/tests/integration -m "not ignore" {posargs}
 
+[testenv:bandit]
+deps = {[testenv]deps}
+commands = bandit -c bandit.yaml -r kmip -n5 -p pykmip
+
 [flake8]
 exclude = .git,.tox,dist,rpmbuild,*.egg-info