one aspect of the present invention can include a system , a method , a computer program product and an apparatus for federating policies from multiple policy providers . the aspect can identify a set of distinct policy providers , each maintaining at least one policy related to a service or a resource . a federated policy exchange service can be established that has a policy provider plug - in for each of the distinct policy providers . the federated policy exchange service can receive requests for policies from a set of policy requesters . each request can include a resource_id or a service_id used to uniquely identify the service or resource . the federated policy exchange service can dynamically connect to a set of the policy providers to determine policies applicable to each request . for each request , results from the policy providers can be received and processed to generate a response . the federated policy exchange service can provide the response to each policy requestor responsive in response to each response .