Entity classes in GRC

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title: Entity classes in GRC
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# Entity classes in GRC

Entity classes are used to tag your entities and to provide a complete view of the risk status in your organization.

Entity classes are tags. After tagging the entities, you can gather data based on entity tags. To understand the concept of entity classes, consider the following example. Assume that the Chief Risk Officer \(CRO\) of your organization wants to see the risk status of all the business applications across all the divisions in the business. As a risk analyst, you can show the CRO the dashboard for the **Business Applications** entity class.

For more information on how to create an entity class, see [Create entity class using the GRC: Workbench](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/grc-risk-management-workspace/create-profile-class-using-grc-workbench.md).

**Parent Topic:**[Exploring the entities](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/grc-risk-management-workspace/manage-entities.md)

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