Case Study: Leeds United Football Club achieves robust Office 365 backups and advanced email protection with Barracuda Networks (Barracuda Essentials for Office 365)

Newly promoted Leeds United hits the ground running with Office 365 backup and email protection

Leeds United Football Club, a 100+ year-old organisation newly promoted to the English Premier League, faced increased cyber risk and a small IT team as it shifted to Office 365. Promotion raised the stakes for business email compromise, ransomware, and data theft, so the club sought visibility, control and protection beyond Microsoft’s native tools.

Leeds deployed Barracuda Essentials for Office 365—combining ATP sandboxing, AI-driven phishing/BEC defenses, and cloud-to-cloud backups for mail and OneDrive—providing a single-pane-of-glass, automated platform with unlimited archiving. The result was stronger protection from advanced threats, simplified day-to-day IT management, consolidated user data to curb unsanctioned consumer apps, and cost-effective backup and recovery.

Leeds United Football Club

Graham Peck

Data Security Manager