 following data was gathered by using the <a href=https://github.com/istio/tools/tree/master/perf/benchmark>Istio performance benchmarking tool</a>.<figure style=width:55%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:45.34%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.20/blog/2020/large-scale-security-policy-performance-tests/istio_setup.svg title><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.20/blog/2020/large-scale-security-policy-performance-tests/istio_setup.svg alt="Environment setup"></a></div><figcapti