le=padding-bottom:45.34%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.20/blog/2020/large-scale-security-policy-performance-tests/AuthZ_var_sourceIP.svg title><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.20/blog/2020/large-scale-security-policy-performance-tests/AuthZ_var_sourceIP.svg alt="Authorization policy with variable `sourceIP` rules"></a></div><figcaption></figcaption></figure>The latency increase of a single `AuthZ` policy with 10 `sourceIP` rules is not proportional to the latency increase of a single `AuthZ` polic