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title: "Working with Scan Playbooks - Overview"
url: "https://dm0bkdes5q7a2ls.productfruits.help/en/article/working-with-scan-playbooks"
language: "en"
last_updated: "2026-03-16T14:32:55.444Z"
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# Working with Scan Playbooks - Overview

Playbooks, at a high-level, provide logical workflows using interactive flowchart symbols for the discovery, classification, notification, and remediation of sensitive data.

## Overview

The **Scan Playbooks** page is where you view and manage your Scan Playbooks.

-   Playbooks, or Scan Playbooks, at a high-level, provide logical workflows using interactive flowchart symbols for the discovery, classification, notification, and remediation of sensitive data.
-   In this way, when sensitive or personal data (Social Security number, Credit Card number, address, IMEI, etc.) is encountered during a scan of your environment, Spirion Sensitive Data Platform can take appropriate action on that data - quarantine, redact, shred, restrict access, etc.
-   -   For example, when Spirion Sensitive Data Platform scans a data target, such as a local laptop, and discovers an instance of sensitive data, such as a social security number, the Scan Playbook used by the scan, classifies social security numbers with the label "Critical," and notifies the Department System Admin (via email) of the discovery.
-   Sensitive data scans are configured with one or more playbooks so that Spirion Sensitive Data Platform knows what to do when it encounters SPI or PII during the scan.
-   Sensitive data scans can not be performed without a playbook selected and applied to the scan.

![](https://docs.spirion.com/Content/Resources/Images/PlaybookGuide_658x446.png)

## What do Playbook do?

It's important to remember Playbooks define:

-   The logic for sensitive data scans
-   The actions to take when sensitive data matches are found. See the graphic below.
-   For more about playbook actions, see [Add a New Scan Playbook/Select Action](https://dm0bkdes5q7a2ls.productfruits.help/en/article/add-a-new-scan-playbook#how-to-set-an-action-from-a-decision-point---select-action-)

**Playbook Actions**

![](https://docs.spirion.com/Content/Resources/Images/ActionGraphic_962x403.png)

## How to Access and View Scan Playbooks

To access Scan Playbooks (or "Playbooks") use the following steps:

1.  From the left side navigation menu, click **Scans**.  
      
    ![](https://cdn-assets.productfruits.com/db123165-d9da-49cc-b2a6-1db8a899a400)
2.  Next, click **Scan Playbooks**.
3.  The "Scan Playbooks" page appears.
4.  Scan Playbooks are displayed in a table which can be sorted by the following columns:
5.  1.  **Playbook Name (Rule)**
    2.  **Description**
    3.  **Last Opened**
    4.  **Last Edited**
    5.  **More options**  
          
        ![](https://docs.spirion.com/Content/Resources/Images/Assets/4.0%20Images/ScanPlaybooks2_736x342.png)
6.  Click a column to sort ascending.  
      
    ![](https://docs.spirion.com/Content/Resources/Images/Assets/2.0%20Images/Playbooks/Playbook%20sort%20ascending.png)
7.  Click the column again to sort descending.  
      
    ![](https://docs.spirion.com/Content/Resources/Images/Assets/2.0%20Images/Playbooks/Playbook%20sort%20descending.png)