e number of security policies or the number of specific rules in a security policy can affect the overall latency of requests.</p><h2 id=setup>Setup</h2><p>There are a wide range of security policies and many more combinations of those policies. We will go over 6 of the most commonly used test cases.</p><p>The following test cases are run in an environment which consists of a <a href=https://fortio.org/>Fortio</a> client sending requests to a Fortio server, with a baseline of no Envoy sidecars deployed. The