diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index cc9a67b5a..f7eca7e67 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ repos:
           - --license-filepath
           - docs/file_header.txt
 
+  - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/bandit
+    rev: 1.7.9
+    hooks:
+      - id: bandit
+        args:
+          - --configfile=pyproject.toml
+
   - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort
     rev: 5.13.2
     hooks:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index eec8b297a..0d55cd3e9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ Documentation = "https://python-holidays.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
 Changelog = "https://github.com/vacanza/python-holidays/releases"
 Downloads = "https://pypi.org/project/holidays/"
 
+[tool.bandit]
+exclude_dirs = ["docs", "tests"]
+
 [tool.coverage.run]
 branch = true
 omit = ["scripts/*", "setup.py", "tests/*"]