diff --git a/backend/secuscan/config.py b/backend/secuscan/config.py
index cd66b1b1c..070dfe1a7 100644
--- a/backend/secuscan/config.py
+++ b/backend/secuscan/config.py
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ class Settings(BaseSettings):
 
     # Security
     safe_mode_default: bool = True
+    verify_ssl: bool = True
     dns_resolution_timeout_seconds: float = 1.5
     dns_cache_ttl_seconds: int = 60
     dns_rebind_check: bool = True
diff --git a/backend/secuscan/crawler.py b/backend/secuscan/crawler.py
index 183a50d30..7013184af 100644
--- a/backend/secuscan/crawler.py
+++ b/backend/secuscan/crawler.py
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 
 import httpx
 
+from .config import settings
+
 
 class _SurfaceParser(HTMLParser):
     def __init__(self) -> None:
@@ -86,7 +88,7 @@ async def crawl_target(
         timeout=timeout,
         headers=headers,
         cookies=cookies or {},
-        verify=False,
+        verify=settings.verify_ssl,
     ) as client:
         response = await client.get(url)
 
diff --git a/backend/secuscan/scanners/api_scanner.py b/backend/secuscan/scanners/api_scanner.py
index d3ed5a6d6..1cef1d076 100644
--- a/backend/secuscan/scanners/api_scanner.py
+++ b/backend/secuscan/scanners/api_scanner.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 import httpx
 
+from ..config import settings
 from .base import BaseScanner
 from ..crawler import crawl_target
 
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ async def run(self, target: str, inputs: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
             timeout=timeout,
             headers={str(k): str(v) for k, v in extra_headers.items()},
             cookies={str(k): str(v) for k, v in cookies.items()},
-            verify=False,
+            verify=settings.verify_ssl,
         ) as client:
             for path in self.COMMON_SPEC_PATHS:
                 url = urljoin(target.rstrip("/") + "/", path.lstrip("/"))
diff --git a/backend/secuscan/scanners/network_vulnerability_scanner.py b/backend/secuscan/scanners/network_vulnerability_scanner.py
index cc0371d5f..b4a9cac41 100644
--- a/backend/secuscan/scanners/network_vulnerability_scanner.py
+++ b/backend/secuscan/scanners/network_vulnerability_scanner.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 import httpx
 
+from ..config import settings
 from .base import BaseScanner
 from ..knowledgebase import KnowledgeBase
 from ..plugins import get_plugin_manager
@@ -186,7 +187,7 @@ async def _probe_http(self, host: str, port: int, *, tls: bool) -> Optional[Dict
         scheme = "https" if tls else "http"
         url = f"{scheme}://{host}:{port}/"
         try:
-            async with httpx.AsyncClient(follow_redirects=True, timeout=5, verify=False) as client:
+            async with httpx.AsyncClient(follow_redirects=True, timeout=5, verify=settings.verify_ssl) as client:
                 response = await client.get(url)
         except Exception:
             return None
diff --git a/backend/secuscan/scanners/xss_validation_scanner.py b/backend/secuscan/scanners/xss_validation_scanner.py
index 7e806f3ec..a66ae0308 100644
--- a/backend/secuscan/scanners/xss_validation_scanner.py
+++ b/backend/secuscan/scanners/xss_validation_scanner.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 import httpx
 
+from ..config import settings
 from .base import BaseScanner
 
 
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ async def run(self, target: str, inputs: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         findings: List[Dict[str, Any]] = []
         self.update_progress(0.25)
 
-        async with httpx.AsyncClient(follow_redirects=True, timeout=int(inputs.get("timeout") or 10), verify=False) as client:
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(follow_redirects=True, timeout=int(inputs.get("timeout") or 10), verify=settings.verify_ssl) as client:
             response = await client.get(probe_url)
 
         body = response.text