diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index d9c5fdd7..bc7d382c 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-requests
+requests[security]
 flask
 PyYAML
 coveralls
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c68fcc18..b8b144c7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ setup(
     },
     keywords='api test',
     install_requires=[
-        "requests",
+        "requests[security]",
         "flask",
         "PyYAML",
         "coveralls",