SnapChat is a photo sharing app for Apple iOS and Android devices. The app permits the time-sensitive sharing of photos--photos self-destruct after a user-configurable amount of time--usually the photo disappears after 1-10 seconds. SnapChat is hosted at Google-owned, AppSpot.com and connects to the Appspot.com servers overSSL/HTTPS. Blocking Snapchat can be accomplished in two ways. Customers with DPI-SSL CI enabled can simply enable this application and all of its signatures. Without DPI-SSL CI, customers must enable the AppSpot.com application signatures. In this second case, there will be false positives, namely, you will be blocking all applications hosted at AppSpot.com.

This SonicWALL signature identifies legitimate SnapChat network traffic.