diff --git a/bandit.yaml b/bandit.yaml
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@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+# 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'
+#    LOW: '\033[94m'
+#    MEDIUM: '\033[93m'
+#    HIGH: '\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'
+
+# 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/'
+
+#configured for swift
+profiles:
+    gate:
+        include:
+            - blacklist_calls
+            - blacklist_imports
+            - exec_used
+            - linux_commands_wildcard_injection
+            - request_with_no_cert_validation
+            - set_bad_file_permissions
+            - subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true
+            - ssl_with_bad_version
+            - password_config_option_not_marked_secret
+
+#            - any_other_function_with_shell_equals_true
+#            - ssl_with_bad_defaults
+#            - jinja2_autoescape_false
+#            - use_of_mako_templates
+#            - subprocess_without_shell_equals_true
+#            - any_other_function_with_shell_equals_true
+#            - start_process_with_a_shell
+#            - start_process_with_no_shell
+#            - hardcoded_sql_expressions
+#            - hardcoded_tmp_director
+#            - linux_commands_wildcard_injection
+#For now some items are commented which could be included as per use later.
+blacklist_calls:
+    bad_name_sets:
+#        - pickle:
+#            qualnames: [pickle.loads, pickle.load, pickle.Unpickler,
+#                        cPickle.loads, cPickle.load, cPickle.Unpickler]
+#            level: LOW
+#            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]
+#            level: LOW
+#            message: "Use of insecure MD5 hash function."
+        - mktemp_q:
+            qualnames: [tempfile.mktemp]
+            message: "Use of insecure and deprecated function (mktemp)."
+#        - eval:
+#            qualnames: [eval]
+#            level: LOW
+#            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."
+        - paramiko_injection:
+            qualnames: [paramiko.exec_command, paramiko.invoke_shell]
+            message: "Paramiko exec_command() and invoke_shell() usage may
+expose command injection vulnerabilities and should be reviewed."
+
+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: HIGH
+            message: "Telnet is considered insecure. Use SSH or some other
+encrypted protocol."
+        - info_libs:
+            imports: [Crypto]
+            level: LOW
+            message: "Consider possible security implications associated with
+#{module} module."
+
+hardcoded_password:
+    word_list: "wordlist/default-passwords"
+
+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
+
+password_config_option_not_marked_secret:
+    function_names:
+        - oslo.config.cfg.StrOpt
+        - oslo_config.cfg.StrOpt
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index ca52315e64..73ca508fe3 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -13,3 +13,6 @@ sphinx>=1.1.2,<1.2
 mock>=1.0
 python-swiftclient
 python-keystoneclient>=1.3.0
+
+# Security checks
+bandit>=0.10.1
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 886174fdcd..249855208d 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ commands = {posargs}
 [testenv:docs]
 commands = python setup.py build_sphinx
 
+[testenv:bandit]
+deps = -r{toxinidir}/test-requirements.txt
+commands = bandit -c bandit.yaml -r swift bin -n 5 -p gate
+
 [flake8]
 # it's not a bug that we aren't using all of hacking, ignore:
 # F402: import '_' from line 51 shadowed by loop variable