AuthZ_var_paths.svg title><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.20/blog/2020/large-scale-security-policy-performance-tests/AuthZ_var_paths.svg alt="Authorization policy with variable number of paths"></a></div><figcaption></figcaption></figure>The latency increase of a single `AuthZ` policy with 10 path rules is not proportional to the latency increase of a single `AuthZ` policy with 1000 path rules compared to the system with sidecar and no policies. This trend is similar to that of `sourceIP` rules.<figur