diff --git a/nifi-commons/nifi-security-kerberos/pom.xml b/nifi-commons/nifi-security-kerberos/pom.xml
index f4374012fc..37e7e62673 100644
--- a/nifi-commons/nifi-security-kerberos/pom.xml
+++ b/nifi-commons/nifi-security-kerberos/pom.xml
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
             <artifactId>bcprov-jdk18on</artifactId>
+            <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 </project>