diff --git a/.github/workflows/bandit.yml b/.github/workflows/bandit.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4135fdfa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/bandit.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+# This workflow uses actions that are not certified by GitHub.
+# They are provided by a third-party and are governed by
+# separate terms of service, privacy policy, and support
+# documentation.
+
+# Bandit is a security linter designed to find common security issues in Python code.
+# This action will run Bandit on your codebase.
+# The results of the scan will be found under the Security tab of your repository.
+
+# https://github.com/marketplace/actions/bandit-scan is ISC licensed, by abirismyname
+# https://pypi.org/project/bandit/ is Apache v2.0 licensed, by PyCQA
+
+name: Bandit
+on:  # yamllint disable-line rule:truthy
+  push:
+    branches: ["dev"]
+  pull_request:
+    # The branches below must be a subset of the branches above
+    branches: ["dev"]
+
+jobs:
+  bandit:
+    permissions:
+      contents: read  # for actions/checkout to fetch code
+      security-events: write  # for github/codeql-action/upload-sarif to upload SARIF results
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Bandit Scan
+        uses: reactive-firewall/python-bandit-scan@11a72c7c18aab77758bf6f5d9456f1018ec107b0
+        with:  # optional arguments
+          # exit with 0, even with results found
+          exit_zero: true  # optional, default is DEFAULT
+          # Github token of the repository (automatically created by Github)
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}  # Needed to get PR information.
+          # File or directory to run bandit on
+          # path: # optional, default is .
+          # Report only issues of a given severity level or higher. Can be LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH. Default is UNDEFINED (everything)
+          # level: # optional, default is UNDEFINED
+          # Report only issues of a given confidence level or higher. Can be LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH. Default is UNDEFINED (everything)
+          # confidence: # optional, default is UNDEFINED
+          # comma-separated list of paths (glob patterns supported) to exclude from scan (note that these are in addition to the excluded paths provided in the config file) (default: .svn,CVS,.bzr,.hg,.git,__pycache__,.tox,.eggs,*.egg)
+          # excluded_paths:
+          # comma-separated list of test IDs to skip
+          # skips: # optional, default is DEFAULT
+          # path to a .bandit file that supplies command line arguments
+          # ini_path: # optional, default is DEFAULT
+          config_path: pyproject.toml
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6be0c701..700d3bef 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -44,3 +44,6 @@ version = { attr = "metadata.__version__" }
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
 testpaths = ["tests"]
 pythonpath = ["8Knot"]
+
+[tool.bandit]
+exclude_dirs = ["tests"]