It is important to bear in mind that the construction of security is not only limited to the guarantee of physical but also ontological conditions, and that the national and international fields, being subject to a process of constant change, generate cognitive gaps in state actors. These cognitive gaps diminish the capacity for prediction in a context of interaction and increase, in turn, the transaction costs derived from the processing of threats and possible responses to them. Thus, although the sphere of ontological security is a field that is not generally considered within the structure of interests of state entities, it constitutes an essential factor in the national interest and in their perception of threats. Given the deepening of the research with respect to the impact of the Democratic Security Policy on the political and social panorama of the country, from the perspective of traditional security, it is pertinent to analyze the effects generated in terms of ontological security, taking into account the incidence it had in reaffirming the condition of identification of Colombia as a Social State of Law effective in the fulfillment of constitutional provisions.