Panic (BSD) on new MacBook

Your notebook appears to have multiple AntiVirus type apps installed: Symantec, FireEye, & Bitdefender. I suggest removing them all to see if these kernel panics stop. macOS already has built-in AV functionality. It does not require any third-party AV "solutions." We find numerous posts here with folks asking for help to remove AV apps that cause these types of problems.

KewlDallas wrote:

Do you know of any documentation that shows Macs are well protected without additional apps? I am also in IT and know how they work: they have to protect-up Window OS devices so the IT Security Team thinks they have to do Mac devices as well...

I hardly doubt you are going to talk sense into your IT department—

Apple uses its Software Update service (which also drives the system software updates that show in the App Store) as a mechanism for installing “background and critical” updates that are installed silently in the background with no notifications to the user.

Typically third party Anti-Virus does nothing but add issues and compete directly with Apple’s® own built in Security:

The macOS uses these to combat malware/adware

Gatekeeper mechanism, central to security services, which tries to ensure that any code loaded is ‘safe’. Code signatures are only part of this.

XProtect checks the security and integrity of files, including in broader ways too, vulnerable document types, such as JPEG images, are also screened to ensure that they’re not malicious.

Apple’s Malware Removal Tool (MRT) an app which often complements XProtect’s signature-based screening, and can automatically remove all traces of many different species of malware.

System Integrity Protection (SIP) which ensures that nothing can tamper with key system files, or even Apple’s bundled apps.

ref: macOS - Security - Apple

https://www.apple.com/macos/security/

ref: Apple Platform Security - Apple

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/welcome/web

https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf

Interesting as I would think that your employer's IT folks would know better. However, it's not too uncommon amongst larger corporations to be "over cautious" with security ... even if it causes more issues than it resolves. Hopefully, you can, at least, get them informed. Good luck!

The panic most likely occurred in the 3rd party kernel extension com.fireeye.agent

Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.fireeye.agent(32.6)[A6E255C5-86D6-33F9-A0DC-49D4DF69E4F0]@0xffffff7f94a25000->0xffffff7f94a49fff

I do not know what fireeye is, but if it is not needed, consider removing it. If it is mandated by your corporate IT, then tell them they are responsible for working with fireeye to get this fixed.

When it comes to 3rd party anti-virus packages on the Mac, Symantic has the highest number of kernel panics reported in the discussions.apple.com forums.

My employer is using Cybereason which licenses the BitDefender. My employer also uses some of McAfee for Firewall, Web, and FileVault encryption key escrow; McAfee Threat Prevention totally destroys all performance on the Mac, which is why my employer is moving to Cybereason/BitDefender.

If I had my way, I would scrap all of the 3rd party anti-virus, and maybe keep JUST the McAfee FileVault encryption key escrow for employees that forget their password, or when the password expiration policies expire before the user changes their password and they get locked out. All the rest is junk that just slows down the Mac for no good reason.