diff --git a/.ci/ipas_default.config b/.ci/ipas_default.config
index bdb8fefbebc..4bc8b481e39 100644
--- a/.ci/ipas_default.config
+++ b/.ci/ipas_default.config
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ exclude_dirs: [
   '.vscode/',
   '.git/',
   'build/',
+  'tests',
 ]
 
 ### (optional) plugin settings - some test plugins require configuration data
diff --git a/src/otx/algo/visual_prompting/zero_shot_segment_anything.py b/src/otx/algo/visual_prompting/zero_shot_segment_anything.py
index c3965c172ef..4a18464f1eb 100644
--- a/src/otx/algo/visual_prompting/zero_shot_segment_anything.py
+++ b/src/otx/algo/visual_prompting/zero_shot_segment_anything.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import logging as log
-import pickle
+import pickle  # nosec  B403   used pickle for dumping object
 from collections import defaultdict
 from copy import deepcopy
 from itertools import product
diff --git a/src/otx/cli/utils/installation.py b/src/otx/cli/utils/installation.py
index 1e758ad9be0..2ad7aa3085e 100644
--- a/src/otx/cli/utils/installation.py
+++ b/src/otx/cli/utils/installation.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 import os
 import platform
 import re
-import subprocess
+import subprocess  # nosec B404
 from importlib.metadata import requires
 from importlib.util import find_spec
 from pathlib import Path
diff --git a/src/otx/core/data/dataset/action_detection.py b/src/otx/core/data/dataset/action_detection.py
index 29e283c7ea6..ac061010dcf 100644
--- a/src/otx/core/data/dataset/action_detection.py
+++ b/src/otx/core/data/dataset/action_detection.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-import pickle
+import pickle  # nosec B403
 from functools import partial
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Callable
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ def _get_proposals(frame_path: str, proposal_file: str | None) -> np.ndarray:
         if not proposal_file_path.exists():
             return np.array([[0, 0, 1, 1]], dtype=np.float64)
         with Path.open(proposal_file_path, "rb") as f:
-            info = pickle.load(f)  # noqa: S301
+            info = pickle.load(f)  # noqa: S301 # nosec: B301 used only for getting dataset
             return (
                 info[",".join(Path(frame_path).stem.rsplit("_", 1))][:, :4]
                 if ",".join(Path(frame_path).stem.rsplit("_", 1)) in info
diff --git a/src/otx/core/model/visual_prompting.py b/src/otx/core/model/visual_prompting.py
index 168711ea193..6ebf4998f85 100644
--- a/src/otx/core/model/visual_prompting.py
+++ b/src/otx/core/model/visual_prompting.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import logging as log
-import pickle
+import pickle  # nosec: B403   used pickle dump and load only to share inference results
 from collections import defaultdict
 from copy import deepcopy
 from functools import partial
@@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ def load_reference_info(self, default_root_dir: Path | str, *args, **kwargs) ->
         if (
             path_reference_info := _infer_reference_info_root / self.reference_info_dir / "reference_info.pickle"
         ).is_file():
-            reference_info: dict[str, np.ndarray] = pickle.load(path_reference_info.open("rb"))  # noqa: S301
+            reference_info: dict[str, np.ndarray] = pickle.load(path_reference_info.open("rb"))  # noqa: S301   # nosec: B301
             self.reference_feats = reference_info.get(
                 "reference_feats",
                 np.zeros((0, 1, self.model["decoder"].embed_dim), dtype=np.float32),