Cobalt Iron Inc.: Cobalt Iron Compass Enterprise SaaS Backup Platform Now Provides SAML Integration Cobalt Iron Inc., a leading provider of SaaS-based enterprise data protection, today announced that its Compass enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) backup platform now offers full support for Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), an XML-based, open-standard data format for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties. Through the Compass SAML integration, Cobalt Iron customers now have the convenience of managing user provisioning and authentication securely and easily from their preferred third-party identity providers. The new integration makes Compass a SAML service provider, with all provisioning taking place outside of Compass in the identity provider's interface. This significantly improves Compass customers' security and user administration in several ways.