diff --git a/bandit.yaml b/bandit.yaml
index a33fd24451..5da39f155d 100644
--- a/bandit.yaml
+++ b/bandit.yaml
@@ -79,10 +79,28 @@
 # B703 : django_mark_safe
 
 # (optional) list included test IDs here, eg '[B101, B406]':
-tests: [B102, B103, B302, B303, B304, B305, B306, B307, B308, B310, B401, B501, B502, B506, B601, B602, B609]
+tests:
 
 # (optional) list skipped test IDs here, eg '[B101, B406]':
 skips:
+  # We default to binding to all interfaces
+  - B104
+  # Yes, we sometimes catch just to quietly swallow an exception
+  - B110
+  # We use insecure randomness all over the place, because
+  # it's exceedingly rare that we need secure randomness
+  - B311
+  # We dynamically build SQL all over the place
+  - B608
+  # We often use subprocesses, and require a lot of trust in our use of them
+  - B404
+  - B603
+  - B607
+  # We parse xml
+  - B320
+  - B405
+  - B410
+  - B603
 
 ### (optional) plugin settings - some test plugins require configuration data
 ### that may be given here, per-plugin. All bandit test plugins have a built in
diff --git a/swift/cli/account_audit.py b/swift/cli/account_audit.py
index 09fd7490f4..b809f0c7e3 100755
--- a/swift/cli/account_audit.py
+++ b/swift/cli/account_audit.py
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
 import os
 import sys
-from hashlib import md5
 import getopt
 from itertools import chain
 
@@ -28,6 +27,7 @@ from six.moves.urllib.parse import quote
 
 from swift.common.ring import Ring
 from swift.common.utils import split_path
+from swift.common.utils.base import md5
 from swift.common.bufferedhttp import http_connect
 
 
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ class Auditor(object):
                     conn = http_connect(node['ip'], node['port'],
                                         node['device'], part, 'GET', path, {})
                     resp = conn.getresponse()
-                    calc_hash = md5()
+                    calc_hash = md5(usedforsecurity=False)
                     chunk = True
                     while chunk:
                         chunk = resp.read(8192)
diff --git a/swift/common/middleware/bulk.py b/swift/common/middleware/bulk.py
index df0c881a74..6484508057 100644
--- a/swift/common/middleware/bulk.py
+++ b/swift/common/middleware/bulk.py
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ payload sent to the proxy (the list of objects/containers to be deleted).
 import json
 import six
 import tarfile
-from xml.sax import saxutils
+from xml.sax.saxutils import escape  # nosec B406
 from time import time
 from eventlet import sleep
 import zlib
@@ -247,14 +247,14 @@ def get_response_body(data_format, data_dict, error_list, root_tag):
             xml_key = key.replace(' ', '_').lower()
             output.extend([
                 '<', xml_key, '>',
-                saxutils.escape(str(data_dict[key])),
+                escape(str(data_dict[key])),
                 '</', xml_key, '>\n',
             ])
         output.append('<errors>\n')
         for name, status in error_list:
             output.extend([
-                '<object><name>', saxutils.escape(name), '</name><status>',
-                saxutils.escape(status), '</status></object>\n',
+                '<object><name>', escape(name), '</name><status>',
+                escape(status), '</status></object>\n',
             ])
         output.extend(['</errors>\n</', root_tag, '>\n'])
         if six.PY2:
diff --git a/swift/common/middleware/xprofile.py b/swift/common/middleware/xprofile.py
index 36425e6fa8..84d812acf6 100644
--- a/swift/common/middleware/xprofile.py
+++ b/swift/common/middleware/xprofile.py
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ from swift.common.middleware.x_profile.html_viewer import HTMLViewer
 from swift.common.middleware.x_profile.profile_model import ProfileLog
 
 
-DEFAULT_PROFILE_PREFIX = '/tmp/log/swift/profile/default.profile'
+DEFAULT_PROFILE_PREFIX = '/tmp/log/swift/profile/default.profile'  # nosec B108
 
 # unwind the iterator; it may call start_response, do lots of work, etc
 PROFILE_EXEC_EAGER = """
diff --git a/swift/common/swob.py b/swift/common/swob.py
index 51841dbb52..60ccb332be 100644
--- a/swift/common/swob.py
+++ b/swift/common/swob.py
@@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ class Accept(object):
     """
 
     # RFC 2616 section 2.2
-    token = r'[^()<>@,;:\"/\[\]?={}\x00-\x20\x7f]+'
+    token = r'[^()<>@,;:\"/\[\]?={}\x00-\x20\x7f]+'  # nosec B105
     qdtext = r'[^"]'
     quoted_pair = r'(?:\\.)'
     quoted_string = r'"(?:' + qdtext + r'|' + quoted_pair + r')*"'
diff --git a/swift/common/utils/__init__.py b/swift/common/utils/__init__.py
index c6c3229244..054e4169ca 100644
--- a/swift/common/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/swift/common/utils/__init__.py
@@ -2854,7 +2854,7 @@ def friendly_close(resp):
     return drain_and_close(resp, read_limit=DEFAULT_DRAIN_LIMIT)
 
 
-_rfc_token = r'[^()<>@,;:\"/\[\]?={}\x00-\x20\x7f]+'
+_rfc_token = r'[^()<>@,;:\"/\[\]?={}\x00-\x20\x7f]+'  # nosec B105
 _rfc_extension_pattern = re.compile(
     r'(?:\s*;\s*(' + _rfc_token + r")\s*(?:=\s*(" + _rfc_token +
     r'|"(?:[^"\\]|\\.)*"))?)')
diff --git a/swift/common/wsgi.py b/swift/common/wsgi.py
index a9a22f2260..fa5367c291 100644
--- a/swift/common/wsgi.py
+++ b/swift/common/wsgi.py
@@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ def run_wsgi(conf_path, app_section, *args, **kwargs):
             if hasattr(os, 'set_inheritable'):
                 # See https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0446/
                 os.set_inheritable(write_fd, True)
-            os.execv(myself, sys.argv)
+            os.execv(myself, sys.argv)  # nosec B606
             logger.error('Somehow lived past os.execv()?!')
             exit('Somehow lived past os.execv()?!')
         elif child_pid == 0:
diff --git a/swift/obj/diskfile.py b/swift/obj/diskfile.py
index 616cda4d0f..d11e8673cc 100644
--- a/swift/obj/diskfile.py
+++ b/swift/obj/diskfile.py
@@ -1087,11 +1087,10 @@ class BaseDiskFileManager(object):
             key = info_key[:-5] + '_file'
             results[key] = join(datadir, info['filename']) if info else None
 
-        if verify:
-            assert self._verify_ondisk_files(
-                results, **kwargs), \
-                "On-disk file search algorithm contract is broken: %s" \
-                % str(results)
+        if verify and not self._verify_ondisk_files(results, **kwargs):
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                "On-disk file search algorithm contract is broken: %s"
+                % str(results))
 
         return results