diff --git a/.github/workflows/audit.yml b/.github/workflows/audit.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2c1dcdfd2100
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/audit.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+name: audit
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.repository }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.sha }}-${{ github.workflow }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+# trigger for all PRs that touch certain files and changes to master
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - '**/Cargo.toml'
+      - '**/Cargo.lock'
+
+jobs:
+  cargo-audit:
+    name: Audit
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Install cargo-audit
+        run: cargo install cargo-audit
+      - name: Run audit check
+        run: cargo audit
diff --git a/arrow-csv/Cargo.toml b/arrow-csv/Cargo.toml
index 66a6d7dbcaa5..d29c85c56cfd 100644
--- a/arrow-csv/Cargo.toml
+++ b/arrow-csv/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 [package]
 name = "arrow-csv"
 version = { workspace = true }
-description = "Support for parsing CSV format into the Arrow format"
+description = "Support for parsing CSV format to and from the Arrow format"
 homepage = { workspace = true }
 repository = { workspace = true }
 authors = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/arrow-json/Cargo.toml b/arrow-json/Cargo.toml
index 7e49a57fbd6c..dd232f197ead 100644
--- a/arrow-json/Cargo.toml
+++ b/arrow-json/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 [package]
 name = "arrow-json"
 version = { workspace = true }
-description = "Support for parsing JSON format into the Arrow format"
+description = "Support for parsing JSON format to and from the Arrow format"
 homepage = { workspace = true }
 repository = { workspace = true }
 authors = { workspace = true }