diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 14ed70c2..124ac248 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ TODO
 # Virtual go & fuse
 .virtualgo
 .fuse_hidden*
+
+gosec-report.sarif
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d4b5f489..4c9c8d39 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -82,6 +82,14 @@ generate: $(VGOPATH) $(CONTROLLER_GEN) $(GEN_CRD_API_REFERENCE_DOCS) $(HELM) $(M
 	@REPO_ROOT=$(REPO_ROOT) VGOPATH=$(VGOPATH) GARDENER_HACK_DIR=$(GARDENER_HACK_DIR) bash $(GARDENER_HACK_DIR)/generate-sequential.sh ./charts/... ./cmd/... ./pkg/...
 	$(MAKE) format
 
+.PHONY: sast
+sast: $(GOSEC)
+	@./hack/sast.sh
+
+.PHONY: sast-report
+sast-report: $(GOSEC)
+	@./hack/sast.sh --gosec-report true
+
 .PHONY: format
 format: $(GOIMPORTS) $(GOIMPORTSREVISER)
 	@bash $(GARDENER_HACK_DIR)/format.sh ./cmd ./pkg
@@ -99,7 +107,7 @@ test-clean:
 	@bash $(GARDENER_HACK_DIR)/test-cover-clean.sh
 
 .PHONY: verify
-verify: check format test
+verify: check format sast test
 
 .PHONY: verify-extended
-verify-extended: check-generate check format test-cov test-clean
+verify-extended: check-generate check format sast-report test-cov test-clean
diff --git a/hack/sast.sh b/hack/sast.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..24d834a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hack/sast.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company and Gardener contributors
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+set -e
+
+root_dir="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )/.." &> /dev/null && pwd )"
+
+gosec_report="false"
+gosec_report_parse_flags=""
+
+parse_flags() {
+  while test $# -gt 1; do
+    case "$1" in
+      --gosec-report)
+        shift; gosec_report="$1"
+        ;;
+      *)
+        echo "Unknown argument: $1"
+        exit 1
+        ;;
+    esac
+    shift
+  done
+}
+
+parse_flags "$@"
+
+echo "> Running gosec"
+gosec --version
+if [[ "$gosec_report" != "false" ]]; then
+  echo "Exporting report to $root_dir/gosec-report.sarif"
+  gosec_report_parse_flags="-track-suppressions -fmt=sarif -out=gosec-report.sarif -stdout"
+fi
+
+# Gardener uses code-generators https://github.com/kubernetes/code-generator and https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf
+# which create lots of G103 (CWE-242: Use of unsafe calls should be audited) & G104 (CWE-703: Errors unhandled) errors.
+# However, those generators are best-pratice in Kubernetes environment and their results are tested well.
+# Thus, generated code is excluded from gosec scan.
+# Nested go modules are not supported by gosec (see https://github.com/securego/gosec/issues/501), so the ./hack folder
+# is excluded too. It does not contain productive code anyway.
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2086
+gosec -exclude-generated -exclude-dir=hack $gosec_report_parse_flags ./...