The universal issues of human security with related concerns are the main topic of this article. The main objective is to analyze the basic factors that influence human existence through this perspective. The author is searching for correlations between the nature of personal and structural security and the human identity understood holistically. Against this background, there are presented numbers of individual and social factors that influence the existential security of a person. Security is perceived here as a way of development of human abilities and desires. It is a process of active and creative adaptation to the generally understood life circumstances, behaviors and activities in the social environment playing important role in establishing the feeling of safety on the individual level.