diff --git a/.github/workflows/scorecards.yml b/.github/workflows/scorecards.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0d5c2a71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/scorecards.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+name: Scorecards analysis
+on:
+  branch_protection_rule:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '21 6 * * 1'
+  push:
+    branches: [ develop ]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions: {}
+
+jobs:
+  analysis:
+    name: Scorecards analysis
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      security-events: write # for uploading to code-scanning dashboard
+      id-token: write # for signing results
+      actions: read
+      contents: read
+
+    steps:
+      - name: "Checkout code"
+        uses: actions/checkout@93ea575cb5d8a053eaa0ac8fa3b40d7e05a33cc8
+
+      - name: "Run analysis"
+        uses: ossf/scorecard-action@99c53751e09b9529366343771cc321ec74e9bd3d
+        with:
+          results_file: results.sarif
+          # sarif format required by upload-sarif action
+          results_format: sarif
+          # "repo_token" not set because personal access tokens are dangerous.
+          # This means Branch-Protection check will not have correct results.
+          publish_results: true
+
+      - name: "Upload to code-scanning dashboard"
+        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@8aff97f12c99086bdb92ff62ae06dbbcdf07941b
+        with:
+          sarif_file: results.sarif
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8c305611..fd9c4929 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 [![Docs](https://readthedocs.org/projects/theupdateframework/badge/)](https://theupdateframework.readthedocs.io/)
 [![CII](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/1351/badge)](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/1351)
 [![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/tuf)](https://pypi.org/project/tuf/)
+[![OpenSSF Scorecard](https://api.securityscorecards.dev/projects/github.com/theupdateframework/python-tuf/badge)](https://api.securityscorecards.dev/projects/github.com/theupdateframework/python-tuf)
 
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 [The Update Framework (TUF)](https://theupdateframework.io/) is a framework for