I've been seeing kernel panics with macOS 11.2 on M1 Mac mini crash recently. After the last couple of crashes, I'm coincidentally seeing Norton 360 say that protection updates were applied at just about the same time as the crashes. From what I remember, I was running the latest version of Norton 360 (8.6.1??).
I've uninstalled Norton to see if the problems go away.
Has anyone else seen this behavior?