Pharmacovigilance is the monitoring, collection, analysis, and reporting of drug safety information, especially adverse effects and suspected reactions. It covers case reports, safety databases, medical reviews, and regulatory submissions used to decide whether a medicine needs warnings, restrictions, or recall actions.
In cyber security, pharmacovigilance records are sensitive because they often contain patient details, healthcare identifiers, trial data, and internal safety investigations. If attackers steal or encrypt these files, they can pressure a company with regulatory exposure, privacy risk, and operational disruption. Defenders protect this data with strict access controls, segregation of safety systems, logging, encryption, and tested backups so adverse-event reporting can continue even during a breach or ransomware event.