diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 409fdfcaef676d8c604ac6c059e92db449a6730d..8e69fb261c4417d9c3c41cdd8a10c8911ecb4713 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,10 +13,8 @@ gunicorn==19.9
 requests==2.21.0
 unicodecsv==0.9.0
 dj_database_url==0.3.0
-django-sslify==0.2.7
 django_webtest>=1.9
 webtest==2.0.18
-django-secure==1.0.1
 bleach==1.4.1
 boto==2.27.0
 django-ses==0.6.0
diff --git a/settings.py b/settings.py
index 4cb3af7be0cb44dd945a0993f244f19e2b17a045..2f20ed18bae1c756a2cdb82788af430e54389482 100644
--- a/settings.py
+++ b/settings.py
@@ -117,9 +117,6 @@ SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF = True
 SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS = ['urls.W002']
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
-    # make all things SSL
-    #'sslify.middleware.SSLifyMiddleware',
-
     # secure a bunch of things
     'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
     'helios.security.HSTSMiddleware',
@@ -155,7 +152,6 @@ TEMPLATES = [
 INSTALLED_APPS = (
     'django.contrib.auth',
     'django.contrib.contenttypes',
-    'djangosecure',
     'django.contrib.sessions',
     'django.contrib.sites',
     ## HELIOS stuff