The need for security is an essential component of Macron’s ideological thought, so much so that it has surpassed the need for freedom that liberalism is renowned for being founded on. In order to provide security, neoliberalism has fully embraced the power of the state to create markets and economic structures that liberalism once thought to be natural. Nowhere is this shift more evident than in the rise of security as a core value of society. By analyzing the thought of Michel Foucault, who was writing on security in the late 1970s precisely as the neoliberal state was becoming a reality, we will see that this new value is articulated in the form of new technologies for the management of populations. By focusing on the town, economics, and health policy, we see three distinct areas where this state has established itself as the primary provider of techniques to deal with problems of the industrial and post-industrial eras. Instead of a continued focus on security, as articulated under Macron, I show that a focus on safety (sûreté), conceptualized as both safety and certainty, is possible and desirable.